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Value less comment... but I've always had a thought in the back of my head that it will only take some catastrophe for us to be back in the dark ages. I hope I'

• a9h74j 5y ago
  As a less all-or-nothing scenario, one relevent concept comes from Joseph Tainter as a theorist of collapse. He proposes that eventually complexity reaches a point where it not sustainable (either in general or at the margin), and a society collapses back to a configuration of less complexity.