It's not OK that I can't use my Oculus or Ray-Bans when Facebook is down

Whatever happened to offline play? Once upon a time, portable, wireless devices were designed to be used off the grid. Sure, an electronic device would always need power to turn on, but its basic functions would keep working without the need to plug it into a TV or connect it to the Internet. These days, so many devices are wholly dependent on the cloud to function -- so much so that, in the rare event the cloud goes down, the most basic features of these devices stop working. During the six to ...