Timeline for How would a different society learn to use our technology
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| Oct 15, 2018 at 14:36 | vote | accept | StuxCrystal | ||
| Oct 12, 2018 at 17:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 12, 2018 at 16:58 | comment | added | Alexander | Need a better understanding of a switch process - the "new society" is landed on XXI century Earth without any material possessions (i.e. books of their language), or 1900 society suddenly obtains tons of alien machinery? When society member wakes up and wants to go on a horse ride, is his horse still in the barn, or he has a garage with a modern car in it? | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 16:57 | comment | added | jamesqf | China? Most of India, Africa, or FTM lots of people in the western world who one day had a computer (or cell phone) dumped on them? | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 16:56 | comment | added | John | Your real problem is how long will that technology and its infrastructure take to breakdown while they learn. Electricity will not last long with people who don't know how to run the generators. | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 15:30 | comment | added | user535733 | I don't understand the question: How would a 1900-western-society have any trouble adapting to computers that haven't been invented yet? | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 14:44 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 14:41 | comment | added | RonJohn | "a different set of humans with a different script and language ... at the level of western society around the year 1900." So... foreigners need to quickly learn the language and all the technology we've created in the 120 years in which humanity has invented & discovered more stuff than in the previous 100,000 years? It's gonna be tough. Real, real tough. Imagine having to figure out how to run a nuclear power plant before it goes critical. | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 14:36 | comment | added | JBH | The only computers around the year 1900 were Babbage-style mechanical difference engines (the most common version was a cash register). Are we talking alternative history? Could someone in the 1900s reverse-engineer a modern computer? If so, consider this question and this question. | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 14:34 | comment | added | JBH | @RonJohn, I'm watching through ST:TOS right now with that Checkov habit. It never gets old! | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 14:30 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | With the vigorous application of SCIENCE!!! | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 14:28 | comment | added | RonJohn | @JBH don't you know the Russians invented everything?? :) | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 14:28 | history | edited | StuxCrystal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add some specific starting constraints.
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| Oct 12, 2018 at 14:23 | comment | added | JBH | Welcome to Worldbuilding.SE! We're glad you could join us! When you have a moment, please click here to learn more about our culture and take our tour. Are you asking if something invented by human Americans, if given to human Russians, how hard would it be for the Russians to figure it out? They've been doing it for 200+ years without much difficulty. | |
| Oct 12, 2018 at 14:15 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 12, 2018 at 14:14 | history | asked | StuxCrystal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |