Comment by vardump
2 months ago
Do we really still have the society wide institutional knowledge to do things how they were done 50 years ago? I wouldn't be so sure.
2 months ago
Do we really still have the society wide institutional knowledge to do things how they were done 50 years ago? I wouldn't be so sure.
Mate, 50 years wasn't that long ago. We had computers and everything else we have now. We still did a lot of things fundamentally the same way. Everything was just slower and smaller (in scale; not physically)
I think you also should realize much of the world continues on without bleeding-edge technology - homes are still built, crops are still harvested, and the world goes on.
I don't think this is likely, but say we, the whole world, goes back to using telephones and writing paperwork on paper.
I don't think it'd be the end of life as we know it.
The important chips aren’t the ones on our desks and in our hands. I think all that shit’s of dubious value to begin with.
It’s the ones in factories, power systems, and transportation equipment, among other things.