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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2913446, member: 27832&quot;]First, this made me jump -- I know Wendy (indirectly, friend-of-a-friend) from an entirely different direction, and had no idea she was A Prepper. I&#039;m not entirely surprised, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s got me thinking, though, about The Internet vs. &quot;an internet&quot;. If a big collapse happened, it would take out the cellular networks and Big Internet for sure; those two creations are at the very bleeding edge of our technological capability, and <i>any</i> step backward would leave them high and dry.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amateur radio operators with solar panels and maintainable generators could keep going for quite a while, and do some data transmission. I don&#039;t know enough about the blockchain to know if it could be maintained in that scenario; my guess is that it&#039;s theoretically possible, but extremely unlikely in practice.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is really one of my nightmare scenarios, though: a world where bits of &quot;golden age&quot; technology still work, but as they die over the years, there&#039;s no hope of replacing them. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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