Comments on: Technologically Useful https://blog.speculist.com/scenarios/technologically-1.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/scenarios/technologically-1.html#comment-2812 Stephen Gordon Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:06:27 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1261#comment-2812 Kathy:

Yeah, there’s plenty other things this quiz left out. We’d also be able to tell them about a “new world” on the other side of the ocean, explain that heat rises – even when you try to hold it in a balloon.

Of course there are a lot of things we’d have to be careful about. At year 0, there’d still be sun worshippers in Rome, so maybe a heliocentric model of the solar system wouldn’t get you killed, but you’d have to be careful what you revealed and to whom.

- Stephen

]]> By: Kathy https://blog.speculist.com/scenarios/technologically-1.html#comment-2811 Kathy Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:34:06 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1261#comment-2811 I scored 5 out of 10 and I think that’s impressive for someone who hasn’t reviewed that kind of stuff since high school.

I would bring information on nutrition, hygiene, child development…

]]> By: Karl Hallowell https://blog.speculist.com/scenarios/technologically-1.html#comment-2810 Karl Hallowell Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:04:34 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1261#comment-2810 If it were long enough ago yet with some infrastructure, I’d start a university. With my knowledge of mathematics and physics, I should be able to train a cadre of engineers, accountants, scientists, and mathematicians to get it going.

Long term, I’d also attempt to put down and propagate various ideas on society, government, legal system, art, etc for future consideration. Fund the creation of public health infrastructure like hospitals, sewers, and personal hygene memes.

]]> By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/scenarios/technologically-1.html#comment-2809 Stephen Gordon Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:14:12 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1261#comment-2809 Triticale:

It would be nice if my library came along.

Don’t touch that! Your primitive intellect wouldn’t understand things with alloys and compositions and things with… molecular structures.

Hail to the King, baby.

]]> By: triticale https://blog.speculist.com/scenarios/technologically-1.html#comment-2808 triticale Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:42:16 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1261#comment-2808 I scored 8/10, but knowledge ain’t chops. I have handyman skills, and I’ve read both basic metallurgy texts and home foundry hobby web sites, and if dropped on an island in the sea of time I’d have a lot of experimenting to do to get past late 18th century iron-making.

It would be nice if my library came along. I collect (or at least accumulate) old engineering texts. Even the strength of materials books ready to hand would be helpful, but somewhere around here I have texts sufficient to start at the Civil War level and build from that to at least 1930s technology.

]]> By: Michael S. Sargent https://blog.speculist.com/scenarios/technologically-1.html#comment-2807 Michael S. Sargent Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:32:18 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1261#comment-2807 Scored 9 of 10 myself, though I had a couple of quibbles with question wording.

Looks like the past’s future would bee in pretty good hands.

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