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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
You're right. The big difference is, in post-apoc stories everyone obsesses about the life that was lost.
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I've always wondered how long it would take before that stopped. Until the first generation dies? Until their grandchildren stop telling stories? Until the last "old" high-tech gadgets are gone?
I know it's not a book, but the original two video games Fallout and Fallout 2 from the late 90's, early 2000's portray a very good post-apocalyptic world. The mix of modern technology and the lack of it in the small rural villages may not have been realistic, but it made sense. The difference between the city built around an underground vault that sheltered its citizens from the nuclear holocaust and gives them considerable resources, and the city of Reno, Nevada, who had to start over from nothing once the flames died down, is especially well done.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
the only trick to survival would be finding working equipment that your cellphone told you that you needed...
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Given how few of us actually save such information to our smart phone, I doubt that. Without internet access and a charger, my Droid is a paper weight. A small, light, and very poor paper weight.