How to Deliver on a Disconnected Day
■ Cutting the network stops every machine that assumes a connection
A hospital under cyberattack disconnects its network to contain the damage. That is the right first move, but a robot that receives delivery orders over the network loses its destination at that instant. It stops mid-corridor.
■ In an emergency, human workarounds and machine inputs rarely match
Oshiro hands over a handwritten note; Hakobukun replies that it cannot read paper. People switch to paper and voice without thinking, but a machine knows only its everyday input channel. Check in calm times that work still flows either way.
■ Conclusion: Prepare a way to keep moving at reduced capacity
Switched to a mode that runs on the in-hospital map alone, Hakobukun delivers slowly but surely. That is degraded operation: giving up speed to keep the essential work going. Decide which functions remain, and who switches them, before any attack.
A connected machine proves its worth on disconnected days.
