In spite of all the doomsday predictors, the world is still going, but it does say in the Scriptures that “the earth abideth forever,” and that there will be a new heaven and a new earth. And remember the verse that says that “the meek shall inherit the earth”? The earth will always be here and so will some people; there’s just gonna be a BIG change!
A financial collapse would cause chaos, and so would the failure of the country’s power grid; I have talked about that. Nuclear explosions, big sun explosions and total world war are all things that could plunge us into the end or a changing time. But there is another thing that could change the world immediately: chip failure.
Do you know that those tiny little computer chips that are in almost everything manufactured today can self-destruct in a flash with the touch of a finger? A tiny static- electricity charge can render them helpless, yet nearly EVERYTHING we depend on is full of chips these days And if a big static-electricity charge zipped across the country and took out all the chips, you’d have no TV, no cell phones or radios, no car, no computers. The power company would shut down, you couldn’t use credit cards, banks couldn’t function, all newer appliances wouldn’t work, slot machines and electronic devices wouldn’t work, and our sophisticated defense system (including radar) would be worthless. Planes couldn’t fly, home phones wouldn’t work, and really, nothing electronic would work. NO computers of any kind! Not even an I-pod or a smart phone. (What would the kids do?)
Police, fire, ambulance and all emergency and non-emergency two-way communications wouldn’t work. Security cameras, alarms, and cash registers in stores would die, as would tape players, scanners, CD players, and stereo systems. Even if you had a generator to supply the power, it would probably have a solid-state ignition and hence wouldn’t work either. Some older vehicles would work, so you could at least get around, but only if you had some gas in a can, because gas pumps wouldn’t work either.
As a matter of fact, we couldn’t launch a missile, drive a tank, fly a fighter plane, sail a warship, or shoot a rocket, and we wouldn’t be able to use radar for defense or weather.
We have become so dependant on those little computer chips, it’s kind of like our dependency on foreign products that we need to survive.
Just start a list or a group discussion of all the things that have electronic chips, and you’ll see what you would be without. I know this stuff sounds scary, but I have just scratched the surface of things that wouldn’t work without these tiny electronic chips. What would life be like?
It certainly would be quiet, wouldn’t it? We would have more time to talk to each other instead of being on the phone, watching TV, sending e-mails, driving cars, fighting wars and working for a living.
Kids would have to use their imaginations to play. We could teach them about hide-&- seek, how to build a fort, how to play “Ditch-em” on bikes, and things like that. Yes, we would be doing a lot of communicating with each other.
Would it really be so bad? I don’t know. But if it ever happens, it had better be worldwide and not just in the US. It’s something to think about, huh? (That we put so much faith in a tiny little manufactured product.)
Tom “Road” Blair
Website: www.tomroadblair.com