# Nashville Explosion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 25, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nashville-explosion/928891 "2020-12-25T15:20:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 107
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nashville-explosion/928891/107 "2020-12-27T20:12:56Z")
@Just_Asking_Questions: Bravo! That’s superb! @DesertDog: Sheesh. Apparently we have reached the **[technological singularity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity)**. But it’s not quite as Good, Von Neumann, Kurzweil, _et al_ were expecting. In fact it’s the opposite. We’ve now invented a technology, the internet + social media, that is too advanced for mere human nature to withstand. And as a result the invention of this tech signals not unlimited near-instant tech growth, but instead near-instant decline to pre-technology. This tech so unhinges the mass of the populace with wild ideas like lizard people, 5G causes COVID, and all the rest, that soon in a fit of collective troll-driven insanity they’ll tear down all of modern society, leaving a starving cohort of a couple million people worldwide living a 12th Century (at best) existence. The scarred survivors may even be forced back to almost stone age hunter gatherers. Sort of a man-made version of Asimov’s _**[Nightfall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel))**_. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nashville-explosion/928891)._