Title: Module 2 Discussion: A World without Computers
Course: CGS 1560 Microcomputer Operating Systems > Section: Module 2 - History and Concepts of Operating Systems (OS)

Imagine that you wake-up in the morning and find out that a malicious virus has infected every computer in the world destroying all data. Every attempt to restore the computers from a backup also fails. The government has announced that it will take them a total of 7 days to resolve the problem.

As of now, there are no working PCs, cell phones, ATMs and Internet. You quickly check your supplies of paper, pens and pencils and find that you still have an adequate supply. You turn your search efforts toward your checkbook which you haven’t used in almost a year. After finding it, you sigh with relief. You have a box of 500 checks that has been untouched for a year. You rush to the bank and find out that the government has mandated a maximum withdrawal for any one person of $500 a week.

Describe how an event such as this would impact your life and what you would do to survive the next 7 days.

Once everyone has completed the discussion question go back and read your classmates postings. Respond to two of them. Comment on how you can relate to one of the postings and offer a constructive suggestion to the second posting.

Use the information in the rubric as a guide toward successful completion of this module's discussion.