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I have the impression that disaster novelists think that as our technology level drop and lots of stuff become lost technology, society become something like me

by speeder 14y ago

I have the impression that disaster novelists think that as our technology level drop and lots of stuff become lost technology, society become something like medieval era instantly, with several common day use objects instantly disappearing or becoming unusable... Yet, when I think about possible collapse I do worry about some interesting things, like, who will replace my glasses? I never heard in a disaster novel of people having problem to find glasses, yet I believe glasses manufacturers will not be much...

fallous 14y ago
Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last"
- ErikAugust 14y ago
  That's the one where the guy has all the books to read but breaks his glasses?
  - zacharycohn 14y ago
    Yep. The famous line being "But there was time, now!"
yareally 14y ago
Even the dark ages were not one day "perfectly working Roman Empire" and the next one could not even find fresh water. It was much more of a slow decline of things going into disrepair and people losing track of ideas and technology due to ever growing isolation and too busy to focus on academia from the lost of technology/infrastructure efficiencies/safety the Empire brought.
jivatmanx 14y ago
Something like Adlens adjustable-prescriptions glasses would be a valuable trading item. Or on a one-way trip to mars.
stevoski 14y ago
In "Lord of the Flies", one kid's broken glasses are a significant plot device.
bdunbar 14y ago
"I never heard in a disaster novel of people having problem to find glasses," Justin Cronin, The Passage. It's a hundred years after the world ended, one minor character is terribly near-sighted. And he's gone through all of the glasses 'from the old days' his small community has in the storeroom and none of them help. It stuck with me because, hey, he's about as near-sighted as I am.
Luc 14y ago
Pinhole glasses. Very simple to make (paper, needle) and they work much better than I expected.
- speeder 14y ago
  I thought this was not much serious... Or would not work for me (I have 5D of hyperopia) So... alright, I took a sheet of paper, a nail scissor, made several (square and low quality...) holes on it. Removed my glasses. Looked a computer screen, and could not see shit. Looked through paper. I could read. OMGWTF!!!!! IT WORKS!!! Sir thank you! I am much happier know knowing that I am not doomed to not be able to read anymore in case something happen and noone make glasses for me anymore!

by speeder 14y ago

fallous 14y ago

Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last"

ErikAugust 14y ago
That's the one where the guy has all the books to read but breaks his glasses?
- zacharycohn 14y ago
  Yep. The famous line being "But there was time, now!"

yareally 14y ago

Even the dark ages were not one day "perfectly working Roman Empire" and the next one could not even find fresh water. It was much more of a slow decline of things going into disrepair and people losing track of ideas and technology due to ever growing isolation and too busy to focus on academia from the lost of technology/infrastructure efficiencies/safety the Empire brought.

jivatmanx 14y ago

Something like Adlens adjustable-prescriptions glasses would be a valuable trading item. Or on a one-way trip to mars.

stevoski 14y ago

In "Lord of the Flies", one kid's broken glasses are a significant plot device.

bdunbar 14y ago

"I never heard in a disaster novel of people having problem to find glasses," Justin Cronin, The Passage. It's a hundred years after the world ended, one minor character is terribly near-sighted. And he's gone through all of the glasses 'from the old days' his small community has in the storeroom and none of them help. It stuck with me because, hey, he's about as near-sighted as I am.

Luc 14y ago

Pinhole glasses. Very simple to make (paper, needle) and they work much better than I expected.

speeder 14y ago
I thought this was not much serious... Or would not work for me (I have 5D of hyperopia) So... alright, I took a sheet of paper, a nail scissor, made several (square and low quality...) holes on it. Removed my glasses. Looked a computer screen, and could not see shit. Looked through paper. I could read. OMGWTF!!!!! IT WORKS!!! Sir thank you! I am much happier know knowing that I am not doomed to not be able to read anymore in case something happen and noone make glasses for me anymore!