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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I love the idea of stories set in a low-tech society with the remnants of high-tech resources.
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So far, most post-apoc lit suggests that survivors often lose the knowledge to properly use the tools left behind; ie, what good is a microscope if no one knows that they're looking at? And there are usually a few people who retain the knowledge of the past, and become significant forces for advancement.
Few people have written about the possibility that, with all the information storage potential that everyone carries around in the simplest cellphone, we could see a post-apoc future where everyone is knowledgeable, and manage to bring recovery about that much faster... in fact, the only trick to survival would be finding working equipment that your cellphone told you that you needed...