I was spiraling down a rabbit hole today looking at the Carrington Event of 1859. For those who don't know, it was a massive solar storm that hit Earth back when the most "high-tech" thing we had was the telegraph. It literally made telegraph paper catch fire and gave operators electric shocks.
Now, imagine that hitting us today.
I’m a huge tech nerd—I live and breathe the Metaverse, Web3, and AI. But honestly? It’s terrifying how fragile we’ve become. We aren't just "using" the internet anymore; our food, our money, our navigation, and even our power grids are all fused to a digital system that isn't shielded against a major solar flare.
I realized today that if my GPS went down, I’d probably struggle to find my way out of my own city. I don’t know any phone numbers by heart anymore. My "wealth" is just a bunch of 1s and 0s on a server that could fry in a millisecond. We’ve traded all our analog resilience for digital convenience, and I feel like we’re just sitting ducks.
Am I being too paranoid, or are we genuinely a "house of cards" waiting for the sun to pull the plug?
Be honest: If the internet went down tomorrow and never came back, what is the one "old-world" skill you’d actually be able to contribute to a community? I’m currently realizing my ability to "prompt engineer" is going to be pretty useless when we’re back to using paper maps and barter systems!
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