I seem to remember reading an SF book wherein it was mentioned that there was something akin to a sport where the winner was the one who could get to the highest level of technology in time x. There was also mention of there being exhaustive literature on the subject.
I'd love to see such a thing come to pass. I'd especially love to see a series of books that provided a detailed, step by step account of how to get from stone age level tech to roughly modern day tech. Printed in such a way to last a long time, so when civilization collapses, they can be found and things can be rebuilt.
Maybe we should start a wiki on the topic? With the eventual goal of having it be printed out into a book. We could start with something (relatively) simple to start (like the radio project) and move on from there. I've been wanting an excuse to play with mediawiki anyway.
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I'd love to see such a thing come to pass. I'd especially love to see a series of books that provided a detailed, step by step account of how to get from stone age level tech to roughly modern day tech. Printed in such a way to last a long time, so when civilization collapses, they can be found and things can be rebuilt.
Maybe we should start a wiki on the topic? With the eventual goal of having it be printed out into a book. We could start with something (relatively) simple to start (like the radio
project) and move on from there. I've been wanting an excuse to play with mediawiki anyway.