On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 17:00:13 -0400, "Mayayana" 
declaimed the following:


>  Even one super solar flare, which supposedly happens
>every few hundred years could possibly fry all integrated
>circuits. 30 years ago that would have been a minor
>issue. Today it would stop cars, computers, utilities...
>everything. Yet people keep spending hundreds of dollars
>for watches to tell them their heart is beating. So I
>try to avoid unnecessary computerization.
>
https://www.amazon.com/Flare-Roger-Zelazny/dp/067172133X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&ke
ywords=zelazny+flare&qid=1598804096&sr=8-1

 There is also a story of day-traders relying upon moving from exchange
to exchange around the world -- when a flare or similar shuts down the
transference of bids and financial information. And the day-traders are all
calling doom because their money isn't moving and they are afraid
somewhere, someone is making money because they couldn't bid. I think the
story resolution (which likely didn't help the doom-sayers) was that ALL
the markets would roll-back to a point just prior to the flare effects, and
start from that state.


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