I’m reading this book now and finding it very good! I’m surprised because most books in this genre I’ve tried lately have been really bad and I couldn’t bear to continue reading them. This one is fun because in addition to being practical it takes you on a fast route tour of just the essentials from the tech tree we’ve developed over human history, without the long winding arbitrary delays we had historically, which is interesting as well as potentially useful. Makes me think Cyberpunk is more likely in some ways (for some types of disaster) than I’d realised. It should be said that the book assumes technology is somewhat intact but most (but not all) of the population are gone.
Some good reading for the bunker: Lewis Dartnell’s The Knowledge: how to rebuild our world from scratch.
I’m reading this book now and finding it very good! I’m surprised because most books in this genre I’ve tried lately have been really bad and I couldn’t bear to continue reading them. This one is fun because in addition to being practical it takes you on a fast route tour of just the essentials from the tech tree we’ve developed over human history, without the long winding arbitrary delays we had historically, which is interesting as well as potentially useful. Makes me think Cyberpunk is more likely in some ways (for some types of disaster) than I’d realised. It should be said that the book assumes technology is somewhat intact but most (but not all) of the population are gone.