This wild card (also called “when lights go off”) relates to the vulnerability of “advanced” societies, especially those in which information and communication networks are based on a few electronic standards. This has been happening right now with the emergence of standard protocols (i.e. TCP/IP, to the 3G, etc.) which, whilst on the one hand eases the communication processes, on the other hand creates vulnerability. One unexpected event (e.g. a terrorist attack or a sun wave storm) could lead to a global electronic systems breakdown and the advanced technological societies would be hit hard by this as everything we do now is controlled in some way by technology.