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From a technological point of view, the following book would be useful: > The Knowledge is a journey of discovery, a book which explains everything you need to

From a technological point of view, the following book would be useful: > The Knowledge is a journey of discovery, a book which explains everything you need to know about everything. This is a quick-start guide for rebooting civilisation which will transform your understanding of the world – and help you prepare for when it’s no longer here… * http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/buy-the-book/ http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/buy-the-book/ Along with the books in its bibliography: * http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/bibliography/ http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/bibliography/ * http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/further-reading-by-chapter/ http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/further-reading-by-chapter/ Further references on medical knowledge and Germ Theory would be good, especially on how to make soap and how to create microscopes so we can see germs. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease A book on anatomy would be useful too so we don't have to rediscover what various bits and pieces and parts do.

ClumsyPilot 4y ago
I agree with the topics chosen, but I fear a lot of this information couod be very hypothetical, like a wikipedia article does not enable you to reproduce the same results. When you learn practical skills, like how to fix your bike, how to solder, how to find good iron ore, your best bet is to learn from a real person so you can exprerience all the intangiable things that go with learning a skill. A youtube video course is the closest substitute i guess.
- tablespoon 4y ago
  > From a technological point of view, the following book would be useful: >> The Knowledge is a journey of discovery, a book which explains everything you need to know about everything. This is a quick-start guide for rebooting civilisation which will transform your understanding of the world – and help you prepare for when it’s no longer here… > I agree with the topics chosen, but I fear a lot of this information [could] be very hypothetical, like a wikipedia article does not enable you to reproduce the same results. It almost certainly is. The book is 352 pages, according to Amazon, so at best it's a extremely high-level outline. An actual manual would be very long and tedious, and certainly wouldn't sell well as a popular book. I'd imagine it would be at least a couple times larger than a collection of all the undergrad textbooks for all the practical courses at a decent university circa 1950 (you've got to get the concepts, plus important implementation details). A manual for bootstrapping a subsistence farming community would probably be a lot shorter and more practical.

ClumsyPilot 4y ago

I agree with the topics chosen, but I fear a lot of this information couod be very hypothetical, like a wikipedia article does not enable you to reproduce the same results. When you learn practical skills, like how to fix your bike, how to solder, how to find good iron ore, your best bet is to learn from a real person so you can exprerience all the intangiable things that go with learning a skill. A youtube video course is the closest substitute i guess.

tablespoon 4y ago
> From a technological point of view, the following book would be useful: >> The Knowledge is a journey of discovery, a book which explains everything you need to know about everything. This is a quick-start guide for rebooting civilisation which will transform your understanding of the world – and help you prepare for when it’s no longer here… > I agree with the topics chosen, but I fear a lot of this information [could] be very hypothetical, like a wikipedia article does not enable you to reproduce the same results. It almost certainly is. The book is 352 pages, according to Amazon, so at best it's a extremely high-level outline. An actual manual would be very long and tedious, and certainly wouldn't sell well as a popular book. I'd imagine it would be at least a couple times larger than a collection of all the undergrad textbooks for all the practical courses at a decent university circa 1950 (you've got to get the concepts, plus important implementation details). A manual for bootstrapping a subsistence farming community would probably be a lot shorter and more practical.