Before the Disruption: How to Protect Your Home, Family, Food, Finances, and Community in Age of AI

What happens when the voice on the phone sounds exactly like your child, the video you are watching looks completely real, your bank is suddenly unreachable, the power is out, and you can no longer trust the systems you depend on? Artificial intelligence doesn't have to "take over the world" to cause serious disruption-it only has to make fraud more convincing, cyberattacks easier, jobs less secure, information harder to trust, and everyday systems more vulnerable. Before the Disruption is a practical guide to protecting your home, family, food, finances, and community before you are forced to figure it out in the middle of a crisis. You do not need a bunker or a fortune in survival gear-you need backup plans, practical skills, stronger relationships, and more than one way to meet the needs your family cannot afford to lose. The question is not whether disruption will happen someday. The question is: will you be ready when a system you depend on suddenly stops working?