COMPUTERS.
Storage. Also known as Great Crashes, Great Wipes, Great Hard Drive Crashes, basically a
Very Bad Thing.
This is what happens when your
hard drive crashes. However, instead of causing you a few weeks, nay months, nay years of
inconvenience, this one fundamentally
shuffles the components of your universe, in a
bad way. This is more
momentous than had if you might have had something
incredibly important on it, like your finished
thesis or
annual report or somesuch, without backing up. This thing
destroys lives and
eats planets, and that's
just for breakfast. These things are such, that for
victims they become life
turning points, in much the same way
those fucking mormons claim they have "
see the light". Unlike
mormons, this is
authentic.
Usually the
short term results, if not
immediate death from
shock or
grief, are the
onset of a
mid-life crises,
depression, and
mental,
physical and
hygenic deterioration. Fortuantely the
long term results are positive,
if the subject survives. (You can consider it a
weeding process, a
cyberpunk version of
Darwinism,
if you will.)
Survivors emerge as more
sage like,
wiser, more
learned, at
peace with themselves. As if they have
mastered Zen.
It also teaches
lazy bums to
backup.
It is rare to experience a second in a
lifetime, so great are they in magnitude. Rarer still to survive it.