I'm the one on the goat

Last night, I read a terrific story in my SF collection, which mght have been written for Hoses of the Holy.

"Falling Star" by Brendan Dubois is set about 60 years into the future, a time when there is no oil, no education, no national government or foreign travel because of a malicious computer "virus" that physically attacked silicon wafers and completely wiped out technology and sent society back to the 18th C. Horse and cart level civilisation, with no electricity, and ignorant peasants who blame technology for their problems, calling it "the Devil's work."

Civilisation lasted about 4 days, something you might have found hard to believe until the recent debacle in New Orleans, and it sure do make you think about how many of our essential systems depend on computers and silicon chips, and how little is in place by way of a disaster recovery strategy.