What if the world memory was wiped out?

We are talking about almost 8 billion people whose memory is erased, a global amnesia.

Initially, there would be widespread panic and confusion. People might still know how to stay alive, that they need to eat and drink. Otherwise it is a total reset of every other function. We would not know our own name, how society works, who our relatives and friends are.

And these would be the least devastating consequences.

At any given time there are 8,000 to 20,000 planes flying over the planet, imagine what would happen if the pilots of each plane forgot how to maneuver it. They would die taking all the passengers with them, and doing further damage and casualties once they crash to the ground.

And on the ground they would not fare much better either, with millions of cars, motorbikes, buses and trucks at any given moment, we would have tens of millions of drivers, passengers and pedestrians basically already dead.

Money and social structures would go down the drain. Most prisoners would die, since those whose job was to feed them would no longer remember. And probably domestic and farm animals, too dependent on humans, would also risk extinction.

Think also of all those doctors in hospitals who no longer know how to do their job, forgetting years of study.

Political tensions would end, nations would no longer have borders, and the world would fall into total anarchy.