Even a highly technical person would likely be useless, unless one were very lucky. "Everything is made of atoms, and you can split them to generate enormous a

Even a highly technical person would likely be useless, unless one were very lucky. "Everything is made of atoms, and you can split them to generate enormous amounts of heat. It's very dangerous but fortunately I know all about how to design a vessel that can do it safely. We can all live like kings and make filthy coal smoke a thing of the past! All we need is some plutonium..." "So, you can formalize the act of doing mathematics as "computation", and build machines to do it. The neat thing is that all such machines are equivalent in power! They're amazingly useful - you can, uh, well, make ballistics tables I guess? But they're so much better than that, trust me they can do anything! We just need some silicon... huh? damn. Okay, we'll use relays - I suppose it's easy enough to get a few hundred miles of extremely fine copper wire... what do you mean, "what's a volt"? https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/ https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/