EMP Protection 3rd Gen Tacoma

Just saw the fluff piece below and thought of your post.

Your comment to me qualifies as "looking at the bright side" of a bad situation. However, technology is really starting to impinge on human psyche, and no one can be sure where it is leading us.


the rise of machines will result in a personal erosion of purpose and deepening sense of human isolation.

https://amp.businessinsider.com/joe...y-smartphones-artificial-intelligence-2017-11

 

Y'all should find a copy of player piano and give it a quick read.

 

It really is. You see the comment from one of the Facebook creators yesterday?

“God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” http://fortune.com/2017/11/09/sean-parker-facebook-childrens-brains/

 

Fear is big business

 

I'm not talking about cities, I'm talking about villages, small farming towns. If you're a farmer or own arable land, I think you'll find plenty of armed civillians willing to help you protect it in exchange for for food.

 

Yeah, that is a little different.

 

Regarding societal breakdown and humanity's inherent desire to off itself:

If you have time and like hard sc-fi, read In The Ocean Of Night by Benford.

Actually that's book 1 of 3.

Brief synopsis:

Humanity encounters alien life, it is AI.

AI has determined that all life not based on AI is too dangerous and unpredictable, so they glass planets with life on them and set "Watcher" satellites around them to sterilize it again if technology ever makes an appearance there.

Humans figure this out and try to prevent the alien probe from calling home.

 

I thought the Hyperion series handled the conflict between Humanity and AI in a very interesting way. Also focuses a lot on civilizations dependence on technology.

 

I'l just come-a-long this to the top of the driveway

 

A friend pointed out to me, we haven't evolved to communicate this way. This isn't natural for humans to have this impersonal interaction. The overwhelming majority of interactions online are hostile. That's not how we function in the real world. That constant vitriol and anger is alien enough for those of us who grew up without social media to deal with. Just imagine children that are born into this world, and don't understand what it's like to not have computers and social media. What will these kids grow up to be like? I can't see how any of this could possibly be good for their mental health. God knows it's taken it's toll on us adults. I got rid of my social media accounts a few years back because it was near constant negativity.

 

Counter point: every preceeding generation has said the same exact thing about every following one. First newspapers were ruining your mind, then radio, then television, now the internet. I think we'll be fine.

 

Thank you to everyone single veteran.

Really no way around technology though.

One thing humans really shine at is adapting.

Loose a food supply, find a different one.

Moved from tropical climate to very cold climates- your body accommodates.

Loose one if your senses, or loss of function of a body part, your body adapts.

One thing machines and computers are not good at is adapting- it is really very complicated stuff that we humans just do "naturally".

When it comes down to it, humans will figure out how to survive with or without technology, but (spoiler alert) technology just can't "survive" without humans.

I also think it's weird when I see a comment how thing are "really going downhill".

If you look at things with a 50 year lens, maybe, but I also disagree with that, since technology has really improved most people's lives in the last 50 years.

The weird part is that 100 years, 500 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years - that kind of lens just reveals how much better off we are. Famine, plague, real poverty, subjugation- all facts of life until recent modern times. Not saying these don't still exist, just most of us don't get a taste, thankfully.

 

Or since we are in the inside of it we don't know it is changing. Society is changing, hard to say it is for the better.

I do remember my great-grandfather (who died in '06 at the age of 97) laughing that his parents thought his generation was basically the same as some think of the millionials today.

 

And don't forget just about eliminating all other life on earth, including Neandertals (well we bred with them). Homo sapiens - the generalists.

 

Mountain bikes

 

50 years ago they were enjoying more technological advances than we have now. We think we are hot because we have tvs on our fridges, can control the thermostat with our phones, and have big flatscreen tvs's

They were thrilled to actually have a fridge, not have to split wood and to have a tv period. Everything now is refinements on that.

I was at a tractor show a few years ago, they had a big late teens Case steamer and a late 60's Case 1030 with a cab plowing in the same field. Figure 40 years between them. 40 years newer than the 1030 gets you pretty close to modern day... quieter/comfier cab, more power... just more refined. Nothing like the transition from steel to pneumatic rubber tires, steam to diesel, standing to sitting, drag chains to hydraulic power steering open air to heated/A/C cab, hydraulic lift vs guys walking back and forth on the plow raising the moldboards individually by hand... and we think we have it easy now over the 60's stuff because we have GPS, quiet cabs and can watch movies while we farm.

 

I picked up one of these bad boys! Gonna use it to make beer runs after the EMP strike goes off....

 

Not all, plenty of antibiotic resistant germs still kicking around...lol

Those Neanderthals though, just not as good at adapting as us. We really did rise to the top in the past 200,000 years - homo sapien ftmfw!

 

50 years ago, we can do amazing things when we put our mind to it

https://youtu.be/tAjmoHDTEoA

 

The way I figure, I'm an old geezer and have had a pretty good run. If EMP disables my Taco, I'm guessing that's going to be the least of my worries. If the power grid is down, distribution of food and other necessities disabled, people scared and desperate, shit man, I don't want to be around for much of that. I'll take out a couple of bad-ass mofo predator types, then call it a life, leave the Road Warrior/Walking Dead lifestyle to you young pups!