Planet Earth: Hacked

By the mid-21st century, all of human civilization on Earth have become completely dependent on 3 things: Electricity, the internet and full automation. Most of the world's countries were also finally united under a worldwide peace treaty. The problem: Civilization then came under the authority of a single government - which quickly became a corrupt totalitarian organization. Near the end of the century, several major groups of hackers united to successfully crack security systems, and as a desperate act to thwart the government's control over everyone, they began uploading massive computer viruses that, on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day of 2100 A.D., caused all the machines of the world to shut down...permanently...

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