Civilizational Collapse, Part 4
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Civilizational Collapse, Part 4
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#2If our current civilization completely collapsed, I would think most of our technology would be gone forever. It is hard to imagine another civilization figuring out how to read a hard drive.
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#3On this topic - Oswald Spenglers observations on the topic of civilizational collapse are an interesting read.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West
> Spengler's model of history postulates that any culture is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan.
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#4If our current civilization completely collapsed, I would think most of our technology would be gone forever. It is hard to imagine another civilization figuring out how to read a hard drive.
For that to happen our current civilization would have to be defined as every civilization on Earth.
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#6If our current civilization completely collapsed, I would think most of our technology would be gone forever. It is hard to imagine another civilization figuring out how to read a hard drive.
A lot more people are literate and we have lots of libraries everywhere. So for that to happen there would have to be a complete directed effort to abandon learning. By all countries. It’s highly unlikely even if we had a catastrophic natural disaster like an asteroid hit taking out or majorly degrading infrastructure.
Such an event on the contrary would probably prompt the most able country left to seek to become the leader (technically and politically) by taking the opportunity to best those left in a worse state.
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#7If our current civilization completely collapsed, I would think most of our technology would be gone forever. It is hard to imagine another civilization figuring out how to read a hard drive.
For that to happen our current civilization would have to be defined as every civilization on Earth.
That's pretty much where we are going, if we are not already there.
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#8If our current civilization completely collapsed, I would think most of our technology would be gone forever. It is hard to imagine another civilization figuring out how to read a hard drive.
We don't have an example of such a complete collapse in the world since the arrival of globalization.
It's easy to envision that a lot of knowledge will be conserved somewhere.
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#9If our current civilization completely collapsed, I would think most of our technology would be gone forever. It is hard to imagine another civilization figuring out how to read a hard drive.
We don't have an example of such a complete collapse in the world since the arrival of globalization. It's easy to envision that a lot of knowledge will be conserved somewhere.
Yes, in our hard drives.
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#10If our current civilization completely collapsed, I would think most of our technology would be gone forever. It is hard to imagine another civilization figuring out how to read a hard drive.
For that to happen our current civilization would have to be defined as every civilization on Earth.
Only the civilization that uses the current hard drive standard and related electronic and digital standards.
There are no hard lines between civilizations of course, but societies that agree on common standards for a number of things sounds like one of the better definitions I can come up with.