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The Knowledge - How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm (Paperback)
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The Knowledge - How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm (Paperback)
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How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from
scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow what would
be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the
postapocalyptic survivors? What crucial knowledge would they need
to survive in the immediate aftermath and to rebuild civilization
as quickly as possible? Human knowledge is collective, distributed
across the population. It has built on itself for centuries,
becoming vast and increasingly specialized. Most of us are ignorant
about the fundamental principles of the civilization that supports
us, happily utilizing the latest-or even the most basic-technology
without having the slightest idea of why it works or how it came to
be. If you had to go back to absolute basics, like some sort of
postcataclysmic Robinson Crusoe, would you know how to re-create an
internal combustion engine, put together a microscope, get metals
out of rock, or even how to produce food for yourself? Lewis
Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an
apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide, adapted to
cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge describes many of the
modern technologies we employ, but first it explains the
fundamentals upon which they are built. Every piece of technology
rests on an enormous support network of other technologies, all
interlinked and mutually dependent. You can't hope to build a
radio, for example, without understanding how to acquire the raw
materials it requires, as well as generate the electricity needed
to run it. But Dartnell doesn't just provide specific information
for starting over; he also reveals the greatest invention of them
all-the phenomenal knowledge-generating machine that is the
scientific method itself. The Knowledge is a brilliantly original
guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern
world.
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