Perhaps tangential, but would fiat currency - particularly in a digital format - have any value after the exchange? The nuclear obliteration of most global industry would ensure that straight barter and enforceable I.O.U.s would be the only viable enconomics left, no?
If I'm trying to reload my own brass and hope that the harvest turns out this year, a bunch of binary values in some NYC vault don't have much value to me, do they?
Also, wouldn't most of the actual hard communications infrastructure be toast with or without the computers that run them? Satellite dishes would be toast, EMP effects would have used the power grid as a massive tuning fork, and the like.
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05-21-2012, 02:21 PM
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