In Spain credit cards still worked during the outage.

And the proposal for digital Euro already contemplate an offline mode for transactions.

As long as the power loss doesn’t last days and batteries die out there would not be a problem with that.

And outage of days will bring so many problems that cashless society might be the less of them.

We can return to a primitive society to avoid dependence on electricity, but do we want that?

I think the best option is just people be prepared with food medicines and offline entertainment for a week in case of a big power loss.

I have several books for the 90s about AI programming. AI have always mean any computer program written to “resemble” intelligence, from basic path finding to LLM.

I mean every historical source is full of one sided propaganda.

Have you ever heard the phrase “history is written by winners”?

What have keep history alive is not Wikipedia. Is the fact that multiple people from multiple POV write things down and we can find and read multiple sources.

Don’t get me wrong, Wikipedia is great, but it’s not what keeps history more or less accurate. Take into account that Wikipedia is a sum up of other sources. In order to write to Wikipedia you must quote a primary source.

And AI really doesn’t have much to do with anything here. Bad sources have existed forever, since Herodotus.

Bikes are the apocalypse ideal vehicle. They are immensely underrated on apocalyptic media.

Fuel I need to constantly scavenger? No thanks.

Noise that would attract the zombies? No thanks.

The highway is collapsed and my RV cannot go through? No thanks.

A bike would get you quite good through many apocalyptic scenarios.