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Are EMP weapons, or EMP from solar storms, the civlization-level threat that some writers such as Ted Koppel or William Forstchen make them out to be?

I was a teenager when I read the Postman and just remember finding the Holnists to be rather horrifying. Thanks again.

Thanks for the response. While some optimism is justified given the progress of our civilization over the last 70 years, that optimism would not have led one to predict our recent "confederate" turn. Do you see that as a fluke and, now that it is happening, what, as futurists, do you foresee as its consequences?

Several writers in geo-politics (Peter Zeihan, George Friedman of Stratfor, etc.) seem to think, well, yes, the world is going to hell in a handbasket, but the U.S. can ride it (and anything climate change can throw at us) out. Do the two of you think we have the resources/privilege of being isolationist in the face of the world's challenges, and what do you think the results of such a strategy would be?