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Pencil and paper and a bunch of old school reference books. In the situation you describe, water systems in the US West will collapse, because they depend on r
by eesmith 5y ago
Pencil and paper and a bunch of old school reference books.
In the situation you describe, water systems in the US West will collapse, because they depend on regional electrical power for pumping. There will be a mass migration to places with food. Lots of people will become farm workers. (Not farmers - hired or even forced labor for farmers who no longer have access to large farm machinery, pesticides, etc.)
Where I live we'll still have hydro power. Most people will be working the fields growing wheat, barley, root vegetables, etc. My expertise as a software developer will be useless. I'll likely end up working the fields, or slopping pigs, with no time for programming.
The exception is that I might be able to work as a computer (in the "Hidden Figures") sort of way. Though now that I think of it, I make a lot of calculation errors.
- ge96 5y agoYeah my question was less about work but personal computing. I agree you could just "keep a journal"... maybe it is a personal fetish/desire to have a computer that you can type things into/run an equation or something... it would be nice if technology still had a place wasn't this thing that was just forgotten because no one knows how to work it. Probably have bigger problems like avoiding disease than a neat little 6502 or whatever.
- eesmith 5y agoIn that case, I started with microcomputers in the 1980s, and my development environment isn't that much different now than in the 1990s - emacs, terminal, and a web browser. I could revert to Usenet days, which supports intermittent data transfers and doesn't require high connectivity.