There's a cool (fiction) book that does a thought experiment about what might happen in the wake of a Carrington-class event.
Kinda inline with what you're describing.
Commune by Joshua Gayou. Worth a read if that's your thing. (I haven't read the rest of the series, only book one, so can't recommend the others yet.)
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we here in south africa are fortunate in that we experienced a very small taste of that,
with the load shedding for months on end, sure people adapted, people brought gensets and solar on masse,
great, but this will be worse, this will be for years if not decades, with every convenience taken away, not just thinks that make life easier, but things nobody thinks about,
Sewerage systems? gone, as the pumps and control systems are all electronic and automated,
Agriculture? back to working the fields by hand, as no highly automated tractor will run when its ECU is destroyed.
point is, society will regress quite far backwards, and I don't think people will be to pleased at how backward and primitive things will go to, modern medicine and vaccines, gone, as no way something like a microscope could work,
banks and economies? gone, as people dont realize this, but nobody carries cash anymore, and the little cash we have is all based on nothing but trust, and before you say Crypto, even with the highly resilient internet, with routers and switches in data centers knocked out, there goes all of human knowledge that was digitized, and stored online.
we here in SA are kind of fortunate that we kind of a bit more independent and have set up some systems to take over should the grid and society collapse, sure there will be discomforts, but were better prepared than somewhere in the US or Europe.
its not a nice scenario, very quickly we will devolve into our base instincts, where we go back to our caveman and tribal roots,
and with it all chance humanity could recover and build anew.
so enjoy technology and being able to talk cr@p on the internet, a solar storm would make us talk to lizards and pigeons, just before we eat them.
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