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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
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?
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In the awesome, classic "Earth Abides" it take two generations to go from societies doing their best to shepherd what's left of the old technology to the grand-kids who mock the old fogies that would rather use old unreliable technology instead of living off the land like natives. But that book was written long before we had consumer electronics.
Thing is, not one person in a hundred is likely equipped to keep themselves alive long enough to re-build anything, when surrounded by a bunch of people whose only recourse is to take what they have.