For many, there is little so terrifying as the thought that this might not be the first time humanity has risen technologically, only to fall from that great height to knapping flint and hunting with sharpened sticks.
The more complex a technology, the more fragile it is, the more difficult to maintain.
We are almost there, to the point where the skills which developed the last 50 years of advances are beyond the person working in their garage workshop, and those who could build even a basic radio from scratch are very few and far between...
“We are almost there, to the point where the skills which developed the last 50 years of advances are beyond the person working in their garage workshop, and those who could build even a basic radio from scratch are very few and far between... “
And those that own said technology aren’t smart enough to keep it from flashing 12:00. What puts the lie to ancient technology, is that there is no junk lying around from previous “advanced” technology civilizations. Not even a landfill with old refrigerators or junked interdimensional tranfer booths. Not one electric toothbrush.
Nah, without old junk to prove that it’s been done already, we’re quite surely the first folks to make it to this technological level. The way things are going, with the middle eastern crowd close to acquiring nukes, we may be the last.