Will the digital world be destroyed in 2012?

A must-read article by a self-described geek ('As a child, David Gewirtz discovered he was a geek sometime during the middle of the Johnson administration'.) out of ZDNet Government blogs starts as follows: "2012. The end of the world. Or, maybe, the end of electronics. Or, maybe not. Maybe it’ll be 2013. It could be the end of civilization as we know it. Or, maybe not. For the record, I’m not making this up. These are the sort of third-hand, reasonably imprecise dire warnings we’re hearing from some sources. Follow along, because either we’re doomed — or duped. According to an article in Monday’s issue of New American, an Australian columnist and “lecturer” named Dave Reneke is claiming that 2012 (or maybe 2013) could be the year that the sun flares to a level that it destroys global electronics." Read the rest of it here.