A technological dependancy will prove well for the greater good of mankind

Those are some entertaining and educational Facts that you have presented to me. i can tell that you have taken a lot of time to prepare your arguments as i have as well you are a most worthy opponent my friend ! As you notice in round one it was more like a quick history lesson more then anything and it may have seemed rather boring or bland for most but now i will show you a very possible scenario of an attack that is very likely the "EMP" "Electromagnetic pulse" http://en.wikipedia.org... an attack like this would be devastating to the 3/4 of americans who would not know what to do if this was to happen. In a nightmare EMP scenario, the entire nation would be a disaster area. Systems could be down for weeks, months, or even years. Ermarth is quick to point out that an EMP would not throw America back to the 17th century; it would throw the nation back to the Stone Age. There would be a 21st century population living in a primitive environment without Stone Age skills. In the 19th century, 75 percent of the nation"s population farmed. They were one generation removed from being pioneers. Now the nation is fed by only 2 percent of population. Most of the 98 percent do not have the survival skills to live past a few months. William Forstchen Survivalists would last for a while, but then would have to contend with people streaming out of cities looking for food. Dr. William Forstchen is a professor of history at Montreat College and the author of a best-selling book on the possible aftermath of an EMP event. The book, titled "One Second After" explains what might happen in a typical American town in the wake of an attack. Forstchen has said he got his inspiration for his book from Newt Gingrich. (Gingrich, Forstchen noted, was the only presidential candidate talking about the dangers from an EMP.) Speaking on the August 3 webcast hosted by United West, Forstchen said that "you cannot recover from an EMP." In that same webcast, Pry noted, an EMP event is the most serious threat facing the United States, but almost no one knows about it. The United States has already had two warnings in the last two month: the power outages in Washington, D.C. and India. Read more at http://www.wnd.com... http://www.wnd.com... Try and imagine yourself being present in the time that this happens . cut off from the internet-all phones unable to work-anything that uses a chip would be fried-all our automobiles,planes,etc. nobody would predict it happening before it is to late. WHO IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EMP ? YEAH RIGHT ! WHO WOULD DO THAT !?!? CHINA China's military is developing electromagnetic pulse weapons that Beijing plans to use against U.S. aircraft carriers in any future conflict over Taiwan, according to an intelligence report made public on Thursday. Portions of a National Ground Intelligence Centerstudy on the lethal effects of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons revealed that the arms are part of China"s so-called "assassin"s mace" arsenal - weapons that allow a technologically inferior China to defeat U.S. military forces. Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com... NORTH KOREA North Korea has labored for years and starved its people so it could develop an intercontinental missile capable of reaching the United States. Why? Because they have a special kind of nuclear weapon that could destroy the United States with a single blow. In summer 2004, a delegation of Russian generals warned the Congressional Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Commission that secrets had leaked to North Korea for a decisive new nuclear weapon " a Super-EMP warhead. Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com... Wikipedia: Faraday Cage As for known countries that are known to posses them: US, Russia and the UK. Supposedly only the Soviets had produced any substantial amounts of these weapons, which also the majority of which have been "supposedly" disarmed. Basically any nation who can create a nuclear weapon can create a makeshift EMP weapon. Most likely, the United States' HPM e-bombs aren't really bombs at all. They're probably more like super powerful microwave ovens that can generate a concentrated beam of microwave energy. One possibility is the HPM device would be mounted to a cruise missile, disrupting ground targets from above. This technology is advanced and expensive and so would be inaccessible to military forces without considerable resources. But that's only one piece of the e-bomb story. Using inexpensive supplies and rudimentary engineering knowledge, a terrorist organization could easily construct a dangerous e-bomb device.http://science.howstuffworks.com... how do we know this could even happen you may ask or this just sounds stupid and silly ! could be true . but knowing the effects of a device like this should we just brush it off and take the chance ? No one looks around anymore. No one looks up from their screens. And although they live in a big city -- THE Big Apple, in fact -- the people around her live in the small world of their own screens. They meet no one new. They don't ask for directions on the street and they don't talk to people near them in the coffee shop. They're busy with their time-consuming technologies. My wife and I were talking about this the other day and we realized that no one knows anyone's phone number any more. There are thousands of digits in any given iPhone, but not a single seven-digit number in anyone's head. My mother-in-law doesn't know her own daughters' numbers. I don't know my own sister's. Basically, why memorize something that a cell phone already knows? And although I send hundreds of emails each month, I don't know anyone's real or electronic addresses. I have no idea how to send a letter to any of my five siblings because, address-wise, I don't know where they live. I literally don't. And speaking of location, Nokia did a study four years ago that showed that a quarter of the world's population can't get around their own home towns or cities without GPS units, and the percentage of map-crippled individuals has to be growing. Many people literally don't know where they are or how to get anywhere around them. The art and relationship of map, navigation, and spatial memory is quickly being lost.http://www.huffingtonpost.com... i ask people right now to stop what you are doing for a minute and ask yourself this question . "how many people do i know right now that would go crazy without there devices, how many people do i know right now that honestly would be simply screwed not knowing where to go and what to do during an event like this" the answer may or may not surprise you. we would be set back to time in history like the stone age ,a time where we people alive right now has never lived in ! just think about that and when you do i ask you post your thoughts in the comment box and let me know your reaction and response to this.