While in the next 3 weeks there will be a grasshopper plague coming to the West ( I saw the last one 21 years ago in Denver and it was awesome with cars skidding out of control as if on ice instead of Grasshoppers)...

the next big thing will be a Cyber War. We have already had practice attacks committed on the US and by the US but the next attack will make a hurricane like Katrina look tame.

Based on the book by Richard Clark 'Cyber War' the black outs in NYC at rush hour followed by London and Rome was much like an underground test of a nuke. The current US strategy is defend the Pentagon but leave everyone else sink or swim. Leaving the utility companies to fend for themselves is a fatal flaw in the Pentagon;s thinking.

A worldwide cyber attack is designed to look like someone else did it and takes about 5 seconds from satrt to end. The damage would be beyond imagination. Perhaps you saw the Bruce Willis version of a Cyber War but the real thing is beyond the scope of any of those screen writers.

Richard Clark was on npr's Fresh Air today and spoke of things that have already happened, by way of cyber war preperations, that were chilling.

This was the most compelling interview I have heard in months.