Numerous stories of the ever developing EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) technology full our newspapers and news sites home feed... What does the EMP mean to us and what could the future hold?
Electro-magnetic pulse technology has been around (yet not fully functional) for close to a decade, however the coming threat of electronic wipeouts has never been more real than it is now.
What would happen if a world-wide EMP set off a international black-out? We've seen the devastation depicted in Telly shows and movies alike... But would the reality match up to the fiction?
Electronics power and run near 98% of all civilization. From medicine manufacturing to weapons, from airplanes to cruise lines, and from water filtration to food production... Our life's depend on electricity.
it is estimated that near 1/3 of the entire world population would suffer fatalities within the first few hours following a blackout... And even that is a relatively conservative number. But that's not the focus of this post... What would happen to the rest of us? Would we have those that rise up to gain power over us all by "re-inventing" electrical power? Would we try and do that ourselves? Are there those of us who would push for a completely electricity-less society?
Where would you stand? What would be your first action steps following a world-wide blackout?
Before you decide, think about it... Ever Internet site you click on, every phone app you download, ever program you download, and every e-book or article you read is being gathered and used by hundreds of thousands of companies and corporations to learn more about you than you know yourself. The government can and does use the same data gathering techniques as these companies.
However electricity provides us life saving technology and the world has never been more open to us.
Me personally? I'd learn to live primitively as our hundreds of ancestors have before us. When the edge of an iron sword and the snap of a bowstring ruled the world around us.
Electro-magnetic pulse technology has been around (yet not fully functional) for close to a decade, however the coming threat of electronic wipeouts has never been more real than it is now.
What would happen if a world-wide EMP set off a international black-out? We've seen the devastation depicted in Telly shows and movies alike... But would the reality match up to the fiction?
Electronics power and run near 98% of all civilization. From medicine manufacturing to weapons, from airplanes to cruise lines, and from water filtration to food production... Our life's depend on electricity.
it is estimated that near 1/3 of the entire world population would suffer fatalities within the first few hours following a blackout... And even that is a relatively conservative number. But that's not the focus of this post... What would happen to the rest of us? Would we have those that rise up to gain power over us all by "re-inventing" electrical power? Would we try and do that ourselves? Are there those of us who would push for a completely electricity-less society?
Where would you stand? What would be your first action steps following a world-wide blackout?
Before you decide, think about it... Ever Internet site you click on, every phone app you download, ever program you download, and every e-book or article you read is being gathered and used by hundreds of thousands of companies and corporations to learn more about you than you know yourself. The government can and does use the same data gathering techniques as these companies.
However electricity provides us life saving technology and the world has never been more open to us.
Me personally? I'd learn to live primitively as our hundreds of ancestors have before us. When the edge of an iron sword and the snap of a bowstring ruled the world around us.
