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For a great satire of this tendency see David Macaulay's amazing graphic book Motel of Mysteries[1] where a motel is unburied thousands of years in the future a

For a great satire of this tendency see David Macaulay's amazing graphic book Motel of Mysteries[1] where a motel is unburied thousands of years in the future and everything in it is classified as part of some ceremonial burial rite. 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdLit/comments/sy8pt2/motel_of_mysteries_by_macaulay_david_a_satirical/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdLit/comments/sy8pt2/motel_of_m...

lapetitejort 3y ago
I'm probably speaking to the choir here, but the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz [0] involves a monastery that forms around an electrical engineer's design documents. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
- AnimalMuppet 3y ago
  It was a lot more than just his design documents. There were enough technical books stashed that it took centuries for the survivors to work through (and saved them centuries re-climbing the tech ladder as they did).