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BigFitMama t1_j0zvp5m wrote

Reply to comment by Bovey in Sci-Fi Movies In The Future? by Producedinchina

I've been contemplating how long would modern solar cells and their infrastructure last off the grid with people of limited tech skills maintaining them? And without out a global communications system you'd be limited to instructional manuals and troubleshooting what you downloaded offline or printed out.

It is easier to maintain a hydroelectric generator and even easier to maintain waterwheel/gear "power" systems as well as gravity fed water pumps because they don't require computers or a storage system for the momentum them produce.

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Godtrademark t1_j11v64q wrote

As a political philosophy student it really hurts to see all this futurism with the obvious conclusion ignored: political organization matters. It doesn’t matter how much you believe the new technologies will matter, technicians are required for all these things, and technicians are a vulnerable anomaly of the modern world. It’s just as likely technical sciences are lost (diverted for war, domination, profit, etc.) into a new dark age as it is to enter a cornucopian age where technology serves the developmental use for a utopian society.

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