{"id":45855,"date":"2026-09-24T12:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45855"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:03:52","slug":"today-sans-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/09\/24\/today-sans-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Today Sans Computers &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; would be, oh, impossible?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Belle of the Ranch<\/strong><\/em> has a logical and fairly scary view of the future. This video describes this view, informed by the military training some of her team has:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Roads to the Arms Race we&amp;apos;re already in\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5vYeZXDedc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They forgot one weapon, though, and that would be EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) weapons. These disable or destroy unshielded computers; the shields would probably be made of lead. How thick of shielding?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure. Heavy enough to inhibit drones? Maybe. And the stronger the EMP, the thicker the required shielding.<\/p>\n<p>EMPs, like nuclear weapons, are indiscriminate, although they kill people only through collateral effects, at least at relatively low strengths. So I understand<del>, at least<\/del>. This means we may have to decide: computers and unending wars, or back to the &#8217;50s, not only for invaders, but for us, too.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, we have a car show with that exact name in our neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; would be, oh, impossible? Belle of the Ranch has a logical and fairly scary view of the future. This video describes this view, informed by the military training some of her team has: They forgot one weapon, though, and that would be EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) weapons. These disable or \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/09\/24\/today-sans-computers\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45867,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45855\/revisions\/45867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}