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[will_couvillier]

Took the story up to a hair under 2000 words today.  

Question of the day:

How long would civilization last if an EMF bomb anniliated the world's technology? 

Comments

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

Depending on where they grew up, the elderly might have little or no better idea than you or me of how to live without high tech than you or me. I think it's in Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma that he talks about how food production has been industrialized in the U.S. for so long now that our parents don't (on average) know more about "real" food or farming than we do, though that changes with our grandparents, and even moreso our grandparents.

On the other hand, I definitely think (and most post-apoc novelists also seem to think) that people with useful skills -- soldiers, organic farmers, people who do blacksmithing for fun -- would be extremely prized possessions... I think it was in The Last Ship (submarine & crew survives after global thermonuclear war) that the few people on board who had been farmers were immensely valued.