I didn’t care too much for the article, but it made me think. I think about civilizational collapse quite a bit, and mostly due to loving history and strategy g

I didn’t care too much for the article, but it made me think. I think about civilizational collapse quite a bit, and mostly due to loving history and strategy games. A large collapse could happen, but as far as I can reason it out, it won’t be anything close to the scale of collapse that the Bronze Age collapse was. There are multiple reasons for this. First, at the end of the Bronze Age, writing existed but it wasn’t everywhere all the time. Writing is now everywhere all the time, and most humans can read and write. This means that, in a collapse, most people can carry on knowledge. The level of death required to create a true dark age (like that following BAC or the fall of Rome) would be on such a scale that I cannot think of something other than global thermo-nuclear war causing it. Second, even in the Bronze Age natural disasters weren’t enough. You had to have disasters plus invasion by the sea people. That wouldn’t work well now since surveillance is good. Any nation would now if masses of humans were on their way to attack. Last thing, if software had gotten worse, I figure my computer wouldn’t start at all considering I had to reboot computers just as part of normal usage through the 80s and 90s. I also had to obsessively save everything all the time because a random crash was normal. Take off the nostalgia goggles.