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Jul 13, 2012 11:44 AM, By Ned Soseman

Over the winter of 1954, the Regency TR-1 was the iPad of its day. It was the world's initial commercially existing transistor air wave that fit in a shirt pocket. The TR-1 sole for $49.95, and it didn't add the "standard" 22.5V non-rechargable battery that cost other $1.50 each. In today's dollars, its cost was relations to that of a new iPad. It was every bit as hip as an iPad, and it came in more colors.

Three years earlier, the typical film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" won a Golden Globe. In a segment of the movie, space foreign Mr. Carpenter arranges a protest of strength by neutralizing all physical phenomenon on Earth (except planes in flight and hospitals) for 30 minutes. The scenes of what happened when the physical phenomenon was neutralized were, by design, frightening. In the days, people could have done do without physical phenomenon or electronic information ample simpler than you could now. Are you creation a connection yet?

Back then, couple of people knew that an electromagnetic beat or deviation from a solar light can result in electrical relapse voltages inside of the solid-state gadgets such as transistors to be exceeded to the indicate that semiconductors and route play fry. A beat can turn off all electronic that is not EMP hardened, inclusive the Internet, and influence high voltage pulses in copper wires. This is a of the calamity scenarios where your top priority now becomes where your next dishes will advance from.

It's something similar to what you programmed for with Y2K, except you knew to the notation when Y2K was ostensible to occur, and you had precocious strategies and skeleton to work around it. At the hire I was with, a line piece in our outline minutia was for salespeople to float bicycles to gather allowance from clients.

EMP or the best solar light would be similar to worst box Y2K to a power aloft than I can comprehend, and there won't be ample warning, if any. As a announce engineer, I similar to to have a outline B. When you can't discard a well known Achilles heel in every component in the workflow chain, what else can you do other than hope a few new technology will finally discard the normally tacit risk?

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