Connecticut’s Amber Alert Goes Global: How One Missing Child Briefly Unites the Planet in Dread
Connecticut, the nutmeg-scented buckle of America’s Northeastern belt, issued another Amber Alert last week, a digital flare shot into the night sky that pinged phones from Mystic to Mumbai. In theory, the alert is a humble, localized SOS for a missing child. In practice, it ricochets through undersea cables and low-orbit satellites, reminding six billion…