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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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Not quite; Pern is resource-poor, and the colony lost a lot of very basic info in the scrabble to get away from Thread. (Like the concept of what computers are, and a lot of basic medical science, and the periodic table of elements.)
We'd have plenty of resources that are hard to produce in low-tech settings--sheets of glass, spools of wire, and plastic tubing in all sizes will be around for centuries. We have encyclopedia that Pern lost with their computers; even though the majority of our info may now be digital, we have huge libraries to draw from.
We'd still be lacking dragons, though.
