Computers have
become our lives now. There are people
out there who don’t have computers and don’t rely on electronic things I know,
but I’m not one of them. My life now
runs through the electronic stuff I have.
That doesn’t mean I’m one of those zombies walking around staring at my
cell phone all day. It simply means most
everything runs through computers for me now.
When I go to work I
spend all night using a computer. The
cameras I watch are controlled by computers.
I type log entries all night on computers. And when I come home, I use my personal
computer. Or play with my Playstation 4 which
is basically a computer used to play games.
I pay my bills using a computer. I even order things with a computer. Everything is electronic!
So what happens if
the electricity goes out? What happens
if one of my major electronic things like my personal computer stops
working? What if *GASP* the hard drive
on my PC fails and I lose everything? I
thought that had happened on Friday.
Sometime Friday my
power went out. I know this because the
fan in my room was shut off and it only goes off when the power is out. I woke up hot and bothered. After turning my *electric* fan back on, I
walked out to where my computer is and of course it was also off. So I tried to start it back up. It wouldn’t start. I was frozen with fear about that! If the hard drive had went out I would lose a
lot of stuff! Photos, writing, all kinds
of things I had on there! I walked into
my bathroom and threw up! How could this
be happening?
If my hard drive
had went bad, I was not only out of all the saved stuff I had, I was also without a
personal computer until I could install a new hard drive! SHIT!
(I wouldn’t lose the book I had just written because I’m smart enough to
back things like that up somewhere else.)
My poor computer just kept trying and trying to start, but nothing was
happening! Finally I wanted to have
mercy on it and held in the power button to just shut everything down. It didn’t shut down and seemed to be doing
something else. My computer was
fighting! Holding the power button down
hadn’t shut it down, it had somehow given it the strength to fight on! And then it flared to life on my
monitor!
So to make this
long story short, my hard drive didn’t fail.
Everything is still working. I’m
quite happy about that. But still, I
worry about what will happen one day when my hard drive does actually
fail. It might, it might not. You never know. It’s a lifetime crap shoot. I gamble with the hard drive every day. Hopefully I’ll keep on winning!
And what if the
power goes out someday and doesn’t come back on? What the hell would we do in life then? Have you ever even thought about that? Where would you get your food from? Grocery stores without power can’t sell
food! It’s insane to think about. How about reading about it? How about this:
Like this cover
says, “What could you do?” What happens
to our lovely electronic society when there’s no more electronic stuff? I’m sure British folks on a small British
isle would handle it much differently than the crazy people in larger
cities. Take a look for yourself,
though. Read this book and think about
what would really happen. You’d
certainly be asking yourself why then, wouldn’t you?
Read this book and
then ask yourself what you would do in that situation. It’s one of my favorite books. Would you survive, or would you become an
animal and die in a few days because you don’t know how to survive? Ask yourself why.
And keep asking why
until next week.
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