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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3556614, member: 27832"]We're climbing a really huge pyramid here -- all today's technology is based on many decades of accelerating progress. "Starting over", even with existing knowledge, would be a big challenge. And remember, an ever-increasing majority of "existing knowledge" is itself in electronic format. I no longer buy programming reference books, because the tools and frameworks I use evolve so quickly that I'd need to replace them more than once a year, and the amount of information each needs to contain keeps growing. If the Internet and existing storage gets catastrophically knocked out, we'll find that we've been living in the very darkest of Dark Ages -- not because they seem dark while we're in them, but because we can't see anything when we look back into them. A vast majority of conversations, correspondence, knowledge, will be inaccessible, probably forever. Yeah, but it's got at least two big antennas leading out of the cabinet to your roof. Hopefully there's some protection; at the very least, you should protect against lightning, and no EMP effect is going to be anywhere near the power of a direct lightning stroke.[/QUOTE]