The science historian, James Burke, had a sobering walkthrough of the consequences of a large-scale failure of technology in the first episode of the first of h

The science historian, James Burke, had a sobering walkthrough of the consequences of a large-scale failure of technology in the first episode of the first of his classic "Connections" series: "The Trigger Effect" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnwpsp_veetle-connections-s01e01-the-trigger-effect_tech http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnwpsp_veetle-connections-s... (Even more sobering is that, nearly 40 years after this series was filmed, we have a new layer of technological dependence: telecoms networks and data services. This would greatly amplify a lot of the things that Burke describes.)