Apart from internet/electricity, water is another big, vulnerable one. I guess if you shut off electricity, you shut off water, but it could also be disabled with a targeted computer hack (or a few well-placed explosives at key dams). How's Taipei (or anywhere) gonna go for a week without water? What happens to all those daily shits?

I've been growing more sensitive to this, and scared shitless (no pun intended) at our vulnerability. By 'our' I mean all of us living in places 100% dependent on electricity, because that's at the core -- electricity. Without that, we're fucked. And it can be shut down so easily by natural disasters or, perhaps more effectively, people wanting to do harm.

Covid demonstrated how quickly things can fall apart. Remember the shipping woes? Supply problems? And that was just a virus, and not a very bad one, really. Can you imagine a major volcano, like the Yellowstone Super Volcano? A big ass meteor? A major solar storm?