EXTRAPOLATE THE CONSEQUENCES

Location: Western side of Colorado River, 9 miles south of Laughlin, NV., on the very NW tip of the AVI tribe, Fort Mojave Indian Reservation. 

AVI (Ah-vee) Casino Report:  "Lady Luck Jackie hit the jackpot and exited the big brass doors with $10.03 in the black and I broke dead even.  "Know when to fold em."
　
This is the first time the “Verizon Stick,” the device that keeps us connected to the cyber-world, has failed to perform as advertised. A connection is possible but the byte-exchange, download rate, is about 3KB (at best) a second. The computer you are using reading this is probably purring along at 200KB a second. Think of the old “dial-up” connection and you’ll have some idea of what is happening at this end. The jest is, I am scarcely able to get connected, trying to upload pictures is just not within the realm of possibility.

This experience, a small blip on the big-screen, has set me to wondering how our society/world would function, get-along, without computers.  “What if” that big fire-ball falls from the heavens knocking out our electronic grid, or a calamitous cyber attack should be successful?  Extrapolate the consequences. Are we prepared? How would you survive? Food delivery would become spotty at best, no gas deliveries for vehicles, home fuel for the furnace not allowed to flow cross-country through the computer regulated giant pipes, cell phones useless as a snooze button on a smoke alarm…etc-etc. And…And worst of all, you’ll no longer be able to connect to Facebook. So it goes.

Or, if you heat your home with wood, have a few months of stand-by food and water, you’ll be able to hang-on until/if the system is mended.

Yours in not so cheerful, but realistic thoughts.......