Congratulations: You’ve survived another year, and 2010 was quite an eventful one. For all the technological advances we made his year including iPads and colored e-readers, we still fear the day where our electronics and inventions will rise up against or fail us, rendering the human race extinct. In honor of the book A is for Armageddon by Richard Horne, which is on sale today, we’re counting down the top technological disasters that we feared were going to happen, but never did – although we’re not ruling out the possibility that they still might occur.
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