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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
[...]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...
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I think your phone must be smarter than mine
More seriously, a lot of the high tech stuff that we rely on requires many levels of extreme specialisation. Anyone here setup to start manufacturing computer chips? What about batteries? Batteries have a limited life, even sitting on the shelf. Who's going to start making new ones to replace them? Then you have to get them into all these devices that are currently being manufactured to be thrown away before their battery die. This is a consumer society, our technology is not made to be used for 20 or 50 years while it waits for our technological capability grows to be able to manufacture new ones. So the more difficult question may be how long would it take to gain a population large enough to once again support that level of specialised knowledge and experience so that we can once again have production of our mod-cons in the brave new world.