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An offline copy of wikipedia would be the next most important thing to membership in a community.
by groceryheist 4y ago
An offline copy of wikipedia would be the next most important thing to membership in a community.
- dividedbyzero 4y agoWikipedia tends to be pretty high-level, i.e. focus more on people, events, general principles, high-level summaries of how things are and their history. But in case of a societal collapse, wouldn't that be kinda useless? Not sure what specific pieces of literature you'd want to have on your emergency hand crank emp-shielded Kindle, but I'd expect more hands-on material would be preferable, i.e. material that tells you how to make and do certain practical things and the right technique and relevant caveats.
- groceryheist 4y agoI think that information about topics ranging from plants, agriculture, medicine, chemistry, mechanics, historical technology would be really valuable. My previous comment is somewhat overstated. Instructional material on fashioning and using specific survival tools or accomplishing survival-essential tasks would be really important!
- tablespoon 4y ago> An offline copy of wikipedia would be the next most important thing to membership in a community. It would definitely not be. You're taking Wikipedia marketing waaay too literally. It's not the "sum of all human knowledge," it's a flawed collection of Cliff Notes for some of it. A roomful of undergraduate textbooks (or the equivalent eBooks) would be about 100 times better than Wikipedia as a foundation for knowledge, but neither would be very helpful in solving urgent, practical survival problems.