by lewis » Mon Jun 02, 2014 7:39 am
Yes Jess, I think you're absolutely right. In such a marooning scenario your priorities will be for immediate survival, and a prerequisite for civilisation will be a larger population size. Given these, as the starting point for a thought experiment, what steps could you take over the generations to recover advanced technology as rapidly as possible? To what extent could you accelerate the progression from mud huts and subsistence farming to electricity, automobiles and antibiotics - how much faster than the ~10,000 years it took us first time around?