re: The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina

As far as the article goes, I've no idea of the validity of it, but

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World would be a better place without more chips and more AI

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it absolutely would not - not when they need replacing/updating.

I go backpacking every year in the middle of the deep woods on a national forest and camp out for 4 days turkey hunting, and if you want a taste of what a life without computers would be like, go backpacking alone for a week with only the essentials and get a taste.

Aside from the breached reservoir dams, nuclear fallout, surprise tornadoes and hurricanes, etc., just the mundane act of finding suitable firewood within a reasonable walking distance becomes a problem after a few days of using up the resource within the immediate area, let alone cutting your finger, it getting infected, and googling to find out the nearest primary care clinic.

I agree to an extent about the ai, but the majority of us would be categorically fricked in every way imaginable within 6 months.