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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I don't think we should assume that most technology will die off. There are enough people out there with interest in maintaining technology, and their own mechanical skills and equipment (and generators), to keep all but the most complex tech going for a long time.
This includes communications equipment, which can be used to pass along information about maintenance and repair (or, at least, jury-rigging ideas) to others, and to organize sharing and swapping of hardware to keep each other going. At the very least, we can expect ebays and craigslists to continue well into the future.
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I put a huge *maybe* on that. Given how dependent we are on technology these days, the shock of losing all or a sizable portion of it has the potential to kick us back a few hundred years in technology. Of course, at the same time, if enough people survive, a large portion of it could be maintained. (I should explore that in a novel sometime. lol) But without the supporting population base and applicable concentrations, it's unlikely to happen. Of course, that's all speculation. We'd need an actual disaster to know for certain.
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Originally Posted by teh603
So a post-apocalyptic Earth would be something like Pern, but without thread or dragons?
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Awe, but I wanted my dragons!
