Two things on my mind. One. What are the Nescafe ads all about? Are they responding to something or are they trying to start something? I have been talking about a return to real for some time. Is this an example?
Two. The Icelandic volcano.Who would have thought that a volcano in Iceland could shut down air traffic across much of the globe? Who had that in a scenario? So here’s a thought. What if microscopic dust from another volcano covered the world and then got into every computer and electronic device causing them to malfunction?
I expect that dust close to the ground level, where we keep most of the computers, would fairly quickly discover it had been recruited as condensation nuclei and precipitated out of the air. CPU fans also don’t operate at anywhere near the pressures of jet engines, so it would take much longer for the abrasive effects of the dust to harm a computer, and even an overclocked CPU has no hope of being hot enough to melt the tiny volcanic glass shards into glass. The ash, rock, and glass shards should also be nonconductive, so they won’t short out electrical equipment either.
I wasn’t being 100% serious – simply making the point about the totally unexpected having an impact. Regarding dust, I was in Sydney when the red dust cloud came over the city last year. It got everywhere. Under doors, through cracks in windows. The house was covered. And it was so fine that things like pool cleaners were unable to get rid of it.