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The idea on principle is nice, but silly to assume that you can sum up human knowledge in one book. Think about the amount of literature people have to read to
by Trufa 12y ago
The idea on principle is nice, but silly to assume that you can sum up human knowledge in one book.
Think about the amount of literature people have to read to became doctors, programmers, engineers, think about "re-inventing" electricity and computers, the world might be re-built but it would take so many generations and it would most definitely look nothing like our.
- jonlucc 12y agoI think it might be more interesting to try to publish a book or collection of books that assumes the knowledge is lost, but will preserve the ability to rebuild. Basically, how to get from raw materials to modern technologies as quickly as possible. We could then study those objects to rebuild the knowledge.
- mkempe 12y agoWe need to record proper methods of thought (rhetoric, logic, epistemology, scientific experiment, engineering), not just recipes to build things. If we have the right approach we can do anything from scratch -- we'd just go through a Second Renaissance.