Better start downloading those offline games and porns.I think all electronic devices will be broken. Even an old NES will no longer work. The world will be knocked back to the 1800s. There will be no modern technology
He said most large corporations don't have the economic incentive to harden their system at this point.
Sounds like it would fry the power grid too. According to that article this happened in the 1800s and telegraph operators were electrocuted. Thats fucking crazy.Yep. And if we had the society of today, back then, it might have ended our civilization. We only survived because we weren't advanced enough yet to be fully affected
Sounds like it would fry the power grid too. According to that article this happened in the 1800s and telegraph operators were electrocuted. Thats fucking crazy.
I think all electronic devices will be broken. Even an old NES will no longer work. The world will be knocked back to the 1800s. There will be no modern technology
honestly it might save civilization; everyone learns not to rely so utterly on tech
This has been forever a 'technically this could happen' threat, but seems like something so far beyond my control that I'm not even wasting any brain power worrying about it.
Just to be clear, this event is inevitable. It's not about it could happen. It's about when. It may not happen in our lifetime. Or it might. But someday it's going to happen. And this would be the first time it would actually harm us. It's happened countless times in the past, pre electronic civilization
https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/solar-storm-wipe-out-internet
The current solar cycle is suppose to ramp up and peak next year, with the peak predicted to be stronger than previously anticipated...
The internet isn't what's doomed civilization. Climate change and growing fascism is.In part you're right & in part you're wrong. The Internet has allowed people with dumb opinions & views to congregate together & feel like they're a larger force than they are. When you have idiots who think they have superpowers, can control water, have hateful views towards women & ethnic groups, & they're able to metastasize & grow larger because the Internet allows them to find one another...That wouldn't happen if there wasn't a system allowing them to find one another. Most people only say the deranged shit that they do online because very clear cut mens rea has to be shown for the law to catch up with them. Otherwise, they sit in their hug boxes with their 10 other people radicalizing themselves.
Technology has increased life expectancy, provided access to knowledge, improved science, etc., etc.
That wouldn't happen if there wasn't a system allowing them to find one another.
Cults existed for centuries before the internet.And the Internet has made it easier for them to find one another
honestly it might save civilization; everyone learns not to rely so utterly on techWhy the fuck should we not rely on technology? Should we also spend months without cars so everyone starts relying on bicycles and walking and horseback?
Better start downloading those offline games and porns.
And the Internet has made it easier for them to find one another
ok so how does the internet going away make cults stop if cults existed before the internet?Never said that, you should take that up with another poster that did say the Internet was an overall downward trend for humanity. Imo it's both the greatest benefit to humanity, & also one of the greatest negatives. I wouldn't ever say get rid of the Internet, just not that it's only an objective good when there's a lot of things the Internet does make more possible that are awful because it exists & enables it, & wouldn't be as bad hypothetically if it didn't exist.
I mean I understand the logic of 'the internet makes this one specific thing worse' but using that logic to justify that the internet has set society itself down the path of doom or whatever is just nonsense.
honestly it might save civilization; everyone learns not to rely so utterly on tech
Why the fuck should we not rely on technology? Should we also spend months without cars so everyone starts relying on bicycles and walking and horseback?
If society should not rely on advancements, then it should not advance in the first place.
honestly it might save civilization; everyone learns not to rely so utterly on tech
honestly it might save civilization; everyone learns not to rely so utterly on tech
And the Internet has made it easier for them to find one another
Yes I think a month of walking everywhere would be generally good for society.
I meant relying on tech to THINK. Just getting spoonfed info from social media instead of critically thinking about things.
A break from the internet sounds good, is all.