Inherited memories to rebuild a fallen civilisation

Question

So, humans have achieved interstellar flight and colonised a distant planet. They have terraformed this world, and now they are beginning to build their first cities.

However, a Neo-Luddite faction arises amongst the colonists which wants the colony to abandon all high tech and return to a “pure” way of life in their new garden of eden. Either by force or by swaying the younger, impressionable generation, the Luddites get their way. The cities are burnt down, all high-tech appliances are ritually destroyed, and the colonists scatter into the wilderness to live as hunter-gatherers.

But not all the colonists wanted this. So, a resistance movement uses bioengineering to give its members a set of genetic memories regarding metalworking, agriculture and other important technologies. The resistance hopes that these “Visionaries” or their descendants will one day go on to rebuild civilisation to its former level.

My question is: how effective would this be at enabling a stone-age civilisation to reach an advanced (think 1960s) level of technology, in a timespan of about 600 years?

Answer 1

Apparently the brain, as it has evolved, stores information in a way that probably makes it hard to "program" people to inherently possess any explicit knowledge as if it was taught to them in school. Genetically imprinted understanding would rather manifest itself as more or less instinctual behavior, much like how beavers construct their dams or termites build their colonies.

While this could be enough to kick-start a technologically advanced civilization, there is a problem: such behavior tends to be hard to contain and keep completely secret. People might engage in forbidden activities without even knowing why they are doing it.

Cf how people are attracted to intoxicants in all cultures all over the globe even if they substances were illegal and the ban was strongly enforced. Even if such activities were kept hidden by instinct, it is impossibly hard to keep the authorities completely out of the picture.

How to prevent it from happening while the Neo-Luddites are in power? If they are devoted enough to their cause, they would probably spot early attempts at some point, and they would try to make it stop before it gets out of hands. What would prevent them from trying to eradicate everyone, just to be safe, who showed any propensity towards anything technological? They don't need to know where it comes from, they might just as well think that some understanding of technology still remains, and some people pose a danger to their cause.