> 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

> 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.