Some believe this might happen, if chips and computers that are embedded in electric power systems and other crucial infrastructures fail as the millennium turns. This could be even more serious than failures in bank records and other commercial enterprises. The Bible points the way. Recreate local and regional eco-communities, intimately intertwined with the Earth. Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi should be thanked for first raising this issue in the Jewish community.
Panic is born of ignorance.
Then if disaster comes, we will be able to meet it without martial law and catastrophe. If disaster does not come, we can relish the joy of new communities and the knowledge that all the plants, the animals, the rivers and the human faces bear in them the Spark of God. Perhaps parts of our global superstructure, our Tower of Babel, are about to die. Those addictions need to cease if we are to live. Yet we also need a lesson that is not so clear in the Bible's Babel.