[T.B. Yoits]

The inter-dependencies of today's technology is much deeper and the knowledge base to keep it going is highly distributed. The knowledge itself is way more complex than that of the Roman era.

and can be stored and transmitted anywhere. It's backed up in multiple locations.

We're reverting to where we'll have people "discovering" computer equipment in garbage dumps the way people find ancient coins in European gardens.

Like when painted natives on remote islands would see airplanes flying overhead, people living among ruins of cities connected by abandoned rail lines and unused roads will see satellites passing overhead at night, steadily blinking as a reminder that people in other parts of the world moved on.

They'll be kept intentionally ignorant through indoctrination, given government scripts to believe and plenty of soma to keep them from thinking.

It started a century ago.

[GingisK]

I have unused Televideo 925E CRTs that are only 50 years old. They don't work due to electronic component degradation.

The most useful technical information is in books, not in computer files. Once people can't read or perform math none of that material will be useful either.

I have given years of thought to sustainability issues and have read what others have to say regarding that. The higher technologies will indeed be lost. But, thank you for your optimism just the same.