It's a good thing that it hasn't come to pass.
Once it happens it will be the "beginning of the end" of our civilization.
All it would take is one "once-in-a-100,000-years" solar storm and we can kiss our electronic data goodbye.
Allegedly NASA has reels of magnetic tape, which have data on them, but nobody can retrieve the info because the machines that could read them are all gone.
Show me a 2000 year old HDD, which still has readable data on it and I might change my mind.
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