https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgpjed/devolution

Entropy. It comes for us all—galaxies, planets, empires, and iPhones alike. Even the sophisticated machinery of late-stage capitalism, its supply chains spanning the globe, is starting to show its seams. No longer can we reasonably expect everything to “work” anymore; maybe some things should never have worked to begin with. Fresh from Terraform’s new print anthology, the great essayist and novelist Ellen Ullman proposes a timeline for total techno-collapse. Brace yourself. — The Eds. 

One day the human inhabitants of earth woke up to find that their headphones no longer worked. No one knows exactly when it started because some people worked nights and slept in the afternoons, some woke up early and some late. But as the world revolved longitude by longitude, the global nature of the problem revealed itself.