Technological suggestion

[kellys_eye]

I've always hankered for a single-source of information that would help in an EOTW situation and pondered the creation of a device that may have some attributes worth promoting.

I'd love to see an A4 sized e-book reader with a 'lifetime' battery (solar recharging) and pre-programmed with the many excellent books that already exist that can help with restarting civilisation. It would also have touch-screen capability and hyperthreading for ease of access.

With memory being cheap and lots of information being accessible in low-capacity text-only format you could put a MASSIVE library on such a device.

Quite frankly I'm surprised someone like Britannica haven't thought of this. Their encyclopedia were legendary on their day and they even ventured into CDROM and DVD versions but they were always a very poor relation to the rank of thick books on library shelves!

If Britannica did an e-book version on the basis of an EOTW situation I reckon they'd sell billions.

Certainly I'd buy one.

But now that I've reminded myself I'm off to seek an old set of Britannica!