Aging sometimes assists in developing perspective. I was 45 years old before I touched a computer, or to my knowledge, much of anything with a computer chip in it. I never missed any of it until I had it.
So yes, if the chip industry were to collapse for whatever reason, we would surely miss the chips until supplies could be re-established. But life would go on. People would still fall in love, babies would still be born, lives could still be fulfilling.
The real danger may not be that chips vanish for a time, but rather how we reacted to that. If we get hysterical and start bombing each other over chips, then yes, it could get very weird very fast.
Aging sometimes assists in developing perspective. I was 45 years old before I touched a computer, or to my knowledge, much of anything with a computer chip in it. I never missed any of it until I had it.
So yes, if the chip industry were to collapse for whatever reason, we would surely miss the chips until supplies could be re-established. But life would go on. People would still fall in love, babies would still be born, lives could still be fulfilling.
The real danger may not be that chips vanish for a time, but rather how we reacted to that. If we get hysterical and start bombing each other over chips, then yes, it could get very weird very fast.