(14 January 2013, 23:32)Tibbs735 Wrote: I really dread seeing the massive ivory tower of accumulated knowledge being lost in one generation to our failings. Things like reading, writing, maths, history, science etc would need to be kept alive.
Reading, writing, mathematics are skills that serve a purpose, I think their future is there as long as people exist. Science? Well, unless we plan to rebuild a similar world, today's science would devolve back into alchemy, metallurgy, botany and physiology, a little natural meteorology and astronomy and basic physics.
History may become an oral tradition as it once was and rather than think of the past as a backwards place as we do now, stories from history will be melded and embellished into tales, fables and lessons.
I do not think there is anything wrong per se with having electrical goods if you can power them, but I think maybe for some who have managed a transition into another way of life may have bigger problems when the last vestiges of the pinnacle achievements of the old world fail.
Perhaps we will have more to keep our minds occupied and not be so fragile if such a time arises; thinking of surviving and food, family and shelter and the basics and what is needed to maintain rather than entertain - after all, a lot of the entertainment in the world today is entertainment for its own sake and is and could only ever be a product of society the way it is today.
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