Agreed, everyone should read that book. Scary how our way of life depends 99.999% on microchips!
I’m not quite into survivalist mode..... yet.
But that book really got me to thinking.
Mr. mm and I could be pretty self-sufficient and manage pretty well if we had to. It really helps to have domestic skills like sewing and canning and gardening.
Matter of fact, I’ve been planning my landscaping around plants which serve double duty by making good foliage plants which produce food as well. Living out in the sticks helps. This is farm country... and smells like if under the right weather conditions. Not quite the country fresh type of air I was anticipating.
Although it was made about 30 years ago, the series “Connections” talked about this “Technology Trap”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6H-w9Rm46o&feature=related