Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city?

NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This brings to mind something David Mitchell said once on Would I Lie To You (British panel show):

In response to Kelvin MacKenzie’s claim that the “This Is My” guest had built him a nuclear bunker:

David Mitchell: If there’s a nuclear war, I don’t want to live…I have no skills. Okay, society is destroyed by a nuclear war, we’re basically - we’re back to the bronze age…how long is it gonna be before people start pitching panel shows again? It’s gonna be at least 2000 years!

(as quoted by TVTropes)

Watch it here if you want, it was annoyingly hard to find.

However I don’t think David - who is a comedian - is precisely right about how such a war would affect the state of technology. If there are survivors, I don’t think we’d really be back to the bronze age. Even if all technology was destroyed (which it wouldn’t be), give humans a few decades, we’ll have some sort of modern technology back up and running. Maybe not computers, but some certainly some analogue electronics - the knowledge isn’t lost. Communications would be one of the first points of focus, so television would follow closely behind.

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