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So, the world experiences a drastic event which kills off most of the human race...

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Inferno0032

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How long does it take before we are able to "get back" to our current state of technology.

Let's say there are 50,000 survivors in several isolated hubs in each of the world's countries.

This is assuming that we want to get the world back to the way it is now. Also that books and literature are not destroyed by the large-scale event, and that the survivors are a rather average sampling of people and in close enough proximity that they may group together. So there may be engineers, doctors, language teachers, masters of the custodial arts, the typical ATOTer who is bitter for having lost the dream life making millions every year and having an unlimited supply of hookers and blow, etc.

Also, if most of the current infrastructure such as plumbing and electricity is still there, but non-operational due to lack of power or other necessities, how does that change your time scale?

Being that most of the advancement, especially in the last couple centuries, have come from fundamental observations leading to innovation, and the "general" knowledge of technology most people have, I don't think it takes very long to get "back" to where we exist today. I don't really have any idea of a great guess, but I'd guess that the first decade or two may be devoted to survival. Once we are able to farm again, and food and shelter procurement is no longer a primary concern, I'd maybe put the time-table at 150-350 years until we are reasonably near today's technological advancement, simply based on the amount of knowledge which exists in scientific manuals and journals, as well as textbooks, as well as past relics which serve as examples to reproduce technologies.

What is your take?
 
It really depends on if the zombies are the ones that are easy to kill like in zombieland or are a pain to kill like the super fast ones in resident evil.
 
Why in the hell are people so obsessed with ELEs and other "Apocalypse-esque" phenomena? I mean really it's probably number two to pornography which in itself is a vice which shows how far the human race is still from becoming an ideal civilization! 😛

If you can see through all the SMOKE and just enjoy your life on a day to day basis without worrying about all this hocus pocus on the news every day things would be so much better. 😉
 
As long as people have that "general knowledge" id say it would take 3 - 4 generations for us to get somewhere near.
 
As long as some asshole invents beer again, I don't give a shit about anything else. Fuck it. I'll plow my field by hand if I have to, long as there's a cold one waiting.
 
Rubycon said:
Why in the hell are people so obsessed with ELEs and other "Apocalypse-esque" phenomena? I mean really it's probably number two to pornography which in itself is a vice which shows how far the human race is still from becoming an ideal civilization! 😛

If you can see through all the SMOKE and just enjoy your life on a day to day basis without worrying about all this hocus pocus on the news every day things would be so much better. 😉
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I think the fascination is with imagining we are something special.

An ELE might do us good, it might set us back. Who knows.
What we are, is a very primal species, instincts are fairly dominant in our daily lives.
We just have education and language to thank, those were the most important things to make progress possible. That's when "thinking" became a real possibility, specifically complex thought.

If we still maintain that, and it can be maintained (people can read), it'll take time but not forever until we're back close to where we are. Reading history can help serve as models to follow or improve upon... in that light, it's possible with a completely fresh start our species could do better with a new try.

If we came together as a species and united as a single culture, that would be win. I wouldn't give a shit if 6billion perished in the process - we're all going to die anyhow, and our lives are absolutely meaningless, so make with living life the best way possible - only get one, there's nothing before or after so you get one shot. While we're here for 70-90 years, we should be focusing on making civilization better for our offspring, and doing what we can to provide every opportunity for them.

If 6 billion of us perished in some event, and left half a billion scattered around the globe, or even in one region, those bitches better realize what I've been saying all along. There doesn't need to be a higher purpose for anything - making our species better is all that is necessary. Make it a better world since it's a fresh start.

[I think I may have answered the OPs questioned in one of those sentences. Not sure. I'm hitting submit anyhow.]
 
If the books and everything else wasn't destroyed like you mentioned a few decades max, but realistically might only be a few years.
If that other stuff was trashed it could take centuries if not longer unless the engineers and scientist, docters, etc. are really good at remembering everything as well as teaching it to the new generations.
 
A few hundred years at least. When the "EVENT" happen, the first few generation will have to relearn how to live off the land, i.e. farming and stuffs. The world will revert back to dark age level of technolgy by this time. Then these isolated groups have to survial the natural/man make disasters for how ever long to rediscover the lost arts. 1000 yrs would be my guess.
 
Rubycon said:
Why in the hell are people so obsessed with ELEs and other "Apocalypse-esque" phenomena? I mean really it's probably number two to pornography which in itself is a vice which shows how far the human race is still from becoming an ideal civilization! 😛
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What the hell are you talking about? If people would accept the fact that they like porn rather than deny it and secretly seek it out, the world would be a much better place.
 
Rubycon said:
Why in the hell are people so obsessed with ELEs and other "Apocalypse-esque" phenomena? I mean really it's probably number two to pornography which in itself is a vice which shows how far the human race is still from becoming an ideal civilization! 😛
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I know, there's still no (good) goddamn hookerbots, I mean what the hell?
 
Electricity would be online in a matter of weeks. And, given your estimated population size, would likely be 100% solar & wind.
 
Rubycon said:
Sure it's entertaining to watch people act like animals screwing while hearing lousy music. The ones addicted to it are the ones with really messed up lives or lacking in other departments! It will be a better place when it's finally banned completely from the internet forever!
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I think it would be fair to say that a great deal of internet growth was fueled by porn. I remember reading some years back that at that time, porn was 75% of all net traffic.
 
DrPizza said:
Electricity would be online in a matter of weeks. And, given your estimated population size, would likely be 100% solar & wind.
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I guess that would be highly dependent on the damages to the transmission and distribution equipment. 😉
 
I figure it would take quite a while(at least 500 years)... with 50,000 left and not all in one area, the first order of business would be to repopulate the earth more than anything. Just because the technology is there doesn't mean we can duplicate it. I don't expect to walk into an Intel fab and figure out how to produce chips.
 
darkxshade said:
I figure it would take quite a while(at least 500 years)... with 50,000 left and not all in one area, the first order of business would be to repopulate the earth more than anything. Just because the technology is there doesn't mean we can duplicate it. I don't expect to walk into an Intel fab and figure out how to produce chips.
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I'm sure the repopulation thing will proceed just fine, without a dedicated effort just for that. We seem to do an excellent job of reproducing already. 😉






(Well ok, some of us do an excellent job.)
 
Jeff7 said:
I'm sure the repopulation thing will proceed just fine, without a dedicated effort just for that. We seem to do an excellent job of reproducing already. 😉






(Well ok, some of us do an excellent job.)
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I honestly don't think it's as easy as it sounds. Just because we do it effortlessly now doesn't mean it's the same when you're reduced to 50,000 people dispersed among possibly over 100+ countries without proper medical care among many other things required. And it's not gonna happen overnight.
 
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