Just FYI, this is an idea explored very interestingly by Jerry Pournell in The Mote In Gods Eye. The Moties had “Museums”that were strictly off limits in their endless wars so that civilization could arise from the inevitable ashes.
Less gloom and doom please. I deal with enough preppers as is.
No, civilization has no chance of continuing, except that good men and women work every day to prevent the fall of darkness. Every day, new technologies are developed to help them towards that goal. But what about the most important technology? Not a mechanical technology, but techniques to make civilization work? It seems that no one ever mentions that, but there are alternatives. Consider a point made that we have an energy problem. There are many technologies in their infancy now that might solve it. It is likely that enough of those technologies will work good that we will not only be able to solve the problem, but that energy will be extremely abundant. It looks like that is the case just from solar and wind, even before fusion is solved … as it probably will be shortly. Then there are other problems, like food. They will be solved as well. The question is then after all those known problems we know are solved, what will be the unknown problems that remain. I work on those. Just one is a genetic problem we face from genetic load that is on absolutely no one’s radar. I have offered an ethical and economical solution in my book Genetics For A New Human Ecology that will be available when the problem is recognized. I also work on strategic problems about how to survive into the future. I’m very systematic. I don’t try to solve problems like playing “Whack A Mole”. I have laid out how we can create and adapt to a new ecology to replace the tribal ecology we left when we created farms and cities. Our ecology is our life support system. I see how humans can create an ecology where we can survive and develop long term. I’ve laid out how we can adapt to it genetically and strategically. To me, the crash you find inevitable is only a danger, not a given. What is most important though is that people work for a good future for their children and they do. I think that when they need the answers about how to make it to the future, the solutions will be there.
