A massive solar flare…
A devastating global blackout …
An unprecedented societal change. Nothing will ever be the same again.
What if the lights go out? For good. Would you survive?
In a 2015 investigation for The New York Times, veteran reporter Ted Koppel postulated that a major cyber attack on the nation’s power grid was not only possible but likely, and that the United States was woefully unprepared. In Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Koppel’s best-selling companion book to the Times investigation, he described the likely aftermath of such an attack in sobering detail. Lights Out was widely praised in the media as ‘an eye-opener’ and received accolades from leaders of both industry and government. It was named an Amazon Best Book for 2015.
Yet despite the accolades and the supposedly ‘raised awareness,’ we sit here in 2020 still very much a nation (and world) unprepared.