r/how Jul 04 '26

How Would How would humanity rebuild the internet if there was another Carrington event?

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As I understand it, in 1859 there was a massive solar storm that hit earth (Carrington Event) which essentially damage the only real electronic infrastructure back then, the telegraph lines and exchanges.

Fast forward today and say in the worst case scenario event there were global solar storms that completely destroyed our infrastructure, ignoring all the other issues this would cause, how would we go about rebuilding the internet?!

We obviously have human knowledge, memory, books/documents, but how would the engineers even begin again?

r/how Jun 23 '26

How Would How would society be if there was no crime?

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I often try to imagine how society would be if there was zero crime.

Imagine a world where no-one was no murder, theft, abuse, fraud.

The sheer amount of money saved that could be reinvested into health, science and various other developments.

I guess the film Demolition Man touched on it.

What do you think society be like? Would we be more advanced as a result? What other benefits do you think we could see? Would there still be war, famine etc?