I just recently came off a 10+ hour power outage, plus the landline phone (the only phone I have) & internet were also out (& the fiber-optic cable for them is underground). This all in the middle of the heaviest snowfall in my 11 years here. It drove home two points...again.
1. There is no technology more useful than a steady supply of electricity. Not SMART phones, nor so-called A.I., nor any other High Tech gizmo. More importantly,
2. According to the geologist & mining engineer, Simon Michaux, plus two physicists, and a couple of other scientists I can't recall at the moment, within about FIVE years, we'll be at the beginning of a protracted period of critical mineral supply shortages (there are plenty left in the Earth, but getting them, refining them, & distributing them will be problematic). Manufacture of the one billion SMART phones per year (currently) will have to be cut way back. Why? Because each one has from 30-70 different critical minerals, & they will be needed for the massive number of needed renewable energy gizmos. Never mind the batteries.
So, the experts I mentioned above say it's highly likely that a "cell phone winter" is coming...unless we transition to a much simpler phone, one without all the bells & whistles (& many of the minerals) of the much touted SMART phone. Those who say they "can't function without my phone" perhaps should imagine functioning without electricity. 
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Not only my opinion. Take Care
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