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Man I hope so...

My main interest, though, is continuity of production after whatever reset event happens. Its wayyyyy too centralized now. Like, look at silicon chips - everyone is chasing the newest and smallest, but who's securing the old tech tech that maybe could be produced locally and would be necessary to rebuild if the main factories or foundries were taken out? Nobody... I don't need this spiffy phone with the nice touchscreen - what I couldn't live without is the ability to compute in less volume than a truck. Old tech, but its unreachable. If a major solar event happened today, we would have to redo the whole last century, at least.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

just need all the necessary science and instructions for manufacturing the parts, starting from how to acquire the raw materials. that's out there, easy enough to find. this is something that i want to do, also, acquire such a library, ideally several copies of everything, stored in three separate locations.

also, physical objects that are critical to being able to do the math manually are critical. slide rules, abacus, and devices for writing and materials to write on. automation techniques for all of the steps should also be part of it, so you can scale up production faster.

idk how big such a library has to be, to get you to the point you can make a programmable calculator, but i would bet it's at least a meter thick of paper.

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Comte de Sats Germain 1mo ago

We need that, and we need to organize our tech into a system analogous to ecosystem trophic levels. Like, here's a metal plate with microscopic engravings that encode everything needed to establish the lowest trophic tech level, then there's another plate for the next trophic tech level after the previous one is established, etc, add in exceptions, loops, branchings, and make that the widespread physical encyclopedia thats hard to destroy.