11 May
2003
11 May
'03
3:23 p.m.
Yet - if every digital device were to cease working
tomorrow - just how
close to the Stone Age do ya think we'd sink?
How close?? We're THERE!!
To the "average" member of our society, anything more complicated than a
flashlight ("torch" for Brits) is incomprehensible MAGIC. Hell, most
don't understand a flashlight.
Rebuilding? Without the existing infrastructure (in the wilderness), how
many people would be capable of building/making ANYTHING? Other than
Tony, could you make a battery? a bulb? Do you really know how to extract
the materials needed from the ground?
Who said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic." ?
Who added "..., or a rigged demonstration" ? (Hint: doesn't anybody ever
change the SUBJECT line?)