Jamais Cascio is asking if we’re taking into account the possibility of failure.
If global warming isn’t a sufficiently compelling threat for you, substitute the existential problem of your choice: asteroid strike; zoonotic pandemic; biowarfare; molecular manufacturing-based warfare; unfriendly AI.
What does it mean to prepare for recovery?
- open-source disaster prep?
- updated survivalism?
- social resilience?
Will we wake up in a post-disaster society run by farmers and librarians?