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it was only three days after the great forgetting that people started to understand the extent of the world’s amnesia. It would take several months before the scale of the loss could be enumerated, but by the time, scientists were unsure if the number they’d arrived at was in fact a real number. They could not check it against anything else to compare or to establish an authenticity.
The great forgetting was long foretold but the prophets of calamity are never heeded. A solar flare, that’s what they termed it, but it was unlike any solar flare ever seen before. It was to previous solar flares as an atomic bomb is to a firecracker. It lasted a full 87 seconds, and a good 1’5 of the world’s population was exposed to radiation levels that will assuredly cause cancers. Every telephonic, telegraphic, tele anything was rendered useless–that was to be expected. the prophets had said that would happen. What wasn’t expected was that it would wipe clean every bit of digitial information stored on computers, disks, tapes, cartridges and keys the world over.

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