The absolute panic of losing wifi is a truly modern tragedy, where a person is instantly transported from a connected citizen of the global village to a primitive cave-dweller staring blankly at a black mirror, forced to confront the horrifying silence of their own thoughts and the terrifying, uncharted world that exists beyond the router, a desperate wasteland where you might actually have to talk to your family or—gasp—read a book with actual paper pages, all while performing the universal ritual of unplugging and replugging the router as if performing a technological séance to beg the digital gods for the return of their precious, life-giving signal.
Sweden's Volvo made the three-point seatbelt design patent open and available to other car manufacturers for free, in the interest of safety. It saves one life every 6 minutes.