Timeline for How might a civilization that comes after us be aided by the fact someone has been here and done it before?
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| May 1 at 19:21 | answer | added | MacGuffin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 29 at 14:24 | vote | accept | FrossD | ||
| Apr 24 at 14:23 | comment | added | David R | It would take magic to prevent digital technologies from deteriorating. Just sitting on a shelf, digital technology deteriorates. Atoms in the transistors migrate which destroy the semiconductors. Resistors fade. Even today, the advanced digital technology is incomprehensible to many people and can be compared to magic. I doubt any being who does not have high technology already would be able to reverse engineer and understand our digital technology. | |
| Apr 23 at 17:42 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 23 at 11:08 | answer | added | ihaveideas | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 23 at 9:58 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | Whilst interesting, this question seems a little underconstrained... I'm not sure it passes the "would a good answer involve writing an entire book?" test. Consider concentrating on a specific bit of technology (say, steam power) and detailing the setting a bit (like, how long ago were humans wiped out? last wednesday? 100 years ago? 35000 years ago? 140 million years ago?). What do you want from "digital technologies are unaffected"? Were you aware that electrolytic capacitors have a potentially quite limited lifetime, for example? | |
| S Apr 23 at 9:41 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Apr 23 at 9:41 | history | asked | FrossD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |