madscience_7

I just thought of a good apocalypse. What if the switching of the earth's magnetic field does something that wipes the content of all magnetic storage devices on the planet. That includes tapes and floppy disks. The trinkets on your USB drives and those few who have made the transition to SSDs in desktops or laptops would be spared. The computers work, but there's no software past the BIOS. Exabytes of data, gone. Quite literally, taking the collective consciousness out of the big hardware brain that powers the digital age.