Consider the Carrington Event:  Why is it important to us now?  Perhaps we should not be so dependent on our digital devices?

In 1859, Sir Richard Carrington observed a coronal mass ejection of staggering proportion that was aimed at the earth producing a large geomagnetic storm in our magnetosphere.


The author of the Wikipedia article on this event (See this link to the article:  Wikipedia Article reference ) makes this worrisome statement: "Studies have shown that a solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would likely cause more widespread problems for a modern and technology dependent society."