Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25857155-20150116082950/@comment-24891101-20150219055001

Last things first: Duly noted. I am much the same way.

Sure, they'd not pack physical books, but they'd still be able to produce hard copy of essentials. And in extremis, as they would be, they might incorporate basic physical principles and such into oral tradition, to guard against destruction of hard drives and other records. Some things would be lost, but much of it would be preserved. Basically, I find it difficult to believe that a concerted effort on the part of all of humanity to remember knowledge could go awry that significantly. Since I think we can grant that there's a minimum group size necessary to survive in the wild on Remnant, I would posit that there is continuity stretching back to that past, which necessitates tradition.

All this said, it would be dishonest of me to deny the loss of knowledge that would happen, since to some degree it's unavoidable. I just disagree over the extent.