Let's say that you find yourself in the ideal situation for this thought experiment. The world as we know it as ended, and the vast majority of humanity is gone. There has been a period of turmoil after the apocalypse, but order has now been restored by a ruler. You are a member of a surviving commu...
Let's say in a hypothetical scenario that you have a ten minute warning that the world as we know it is about to end. What five things would you attempt to recover to take into your apocalypse-proof bunker, to aid in the efforts to rebuild after everything has been wiped-out? What objects do you thi...
In The Knowledge book I lay out what I consider to be the most useful information for rebuilding civilisation. But the paper pages it is written on are not particularly durable, and the copy saved on my laptop hard-disk would be even more useless to a community knocked-back to rudimentary means. So ...
The great physicist Richard Feynman considered the potential destruction of all scientific knowledge and what might be done about it. If you were allowed to securely transmit a single statement to whichever intelligent creatures emerged after the cataclysm, what would you send? What sentence holds t...
Do you know of a relevant book club near you - perhaps one focussing on post-apocalyptic fiction? Please post the details as a separate topic below (rather than replying to this 'Read me' introduction), and I'll add it to the summary list on the book's website: Book Clubs
Hello, my name's Lewis Dartnell, the author of the popular science book ' The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch ' ( book website link ). Welcome to the book's discussion forum! Get a drink, make yourself comfortable, and join the conversation. New members will need to register first, ...