Playing Chicken with the Apocalypse

I think that this reading addresses a subject that we were familiar with six years ago with the Millenium Bug. We, as a society, have become so used to certain pieces of technology that it would not take much to force us back into the "horse and buggy" days. The loss of all computer systems six years ago would have meant that the world economies would have been thrown into chaos and lives would have been lost as a result. More recently, the "fossil fuel" debate, if you can call it that, is a bit of a contradiction that is cause for concern. After the recent rise in gas prices and the already well-known knowledge that gas and oil is going to run out in the near future, there are NO technologies in place at this time to solve this problem and very few are in development and even fewer pose a soultion. The only difference between myself and the author is the fact that I have come to terms with the Social Security death that will occur in the next few decades and have accepted it. Other than this, I agree with the author