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Speaking of islands, the only island we have to worry about in this context is the mediated knowledge base that we are building in this era. We're in a transition phase and can recover if disaster strikes today. But once the transformation is complete, the path of disaster recovery is not so clear.
roundsquare · 4945 days ago · link ·
Are you talking about specialization? I.e. that the problem is that people are becoming too specialized so that if the worst does happen most of us won't know how to survive?
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Or merely poor English :) You are thinking of a more immediate threat that may actually have the unintended consequence of addressing the longer term threat of civilizational information/knowledge-base bound to a minimal industrial base requirement (aka "mediated" .. (yeah, - text/books o/c ..)).
As for the ids, the economic version already exists: I can not read a certain subset of academic research in my field as it is behind paywalls in ACM, IEEE, etc.