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A good sci-fi book on this topic is the Earth Abides: http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Abides-George-R-Stewart/dp/0345487133/ http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Abides-Geo
by kqr2 13y ago
A good sci-fi book on this topic is the Earth Abides:
http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Abides-George-R-Stewart/dp/0345487133/ http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Abides-George-R-Stewart/dp/03454...
From one of the reviews:
One thing that disturbs people about Earth Abides is its incredible humbling realism about the human condition. People who read it come away profoundly unnerved by the idea that civilization is not something guaranteed to come into existence if we lose it and that it requires an enormous convergence of many different kinds of stimulus to create the energies needed within a race of men to bring it into being. Even the most gifted races of people on the Earth can barely hold it together in the best of times, George Stewart shows us how easily it can all fall apart and remain in a primeval condition for untold generations.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3L6EVT6CXOAFM/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0345487133&nodeID=283155&store=books http://www.amazon.com/review/R3L6EVT6CXOAFM/ref=cm_cr_dp_tit...
- cpeterso 13y agoThere's a good possibility that, even with all our current knowledge, we could not reboot civilization because we've tapped much of the Earth's easily-accessible oil.
- morganf 12y agoWow, the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon at work! I just re-read Ecclesiastes 5 minutes before reading your post -- and in the opening lines it says (KJV translation), "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever." In my previous readings, I had never thought about the phrase "the earth abides" but in this morning's reading I did, and now I just saw it used here in the book title! :) (PS: yeah, I know this isn't a super on-target tech web 2.0 scalable infrastructure comment like most on HN -- I'm just always in awe of baader-meinhof at work!) :)