For the purpose of this assignment, you are to use the scenario that the world has just suffered a global EMP-based war.
Everything that is connected to networks of wire, or uses transistor circuitry and newer electronics is now unusable and un-repairable. If you are unfamiliar with the Irish potato famine, you are allowed to do research to gain a better understanding of what happened.
Answer the following questions in your own words.
How is this dependence on potatoes seen as a possible parallel to the events of the early twenty-first century and our dependence on computer technology?
What would society do if all computers and all other equipment that uses processors suddenly stopped working?
What lessons can we draw from these two examples?