Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25857155-20150116082950/@comment-24891101-20150219044642

Hardly. Libraries exist. Research universities exist. We'd not be screwed.

And it'd be hard to lose technology and knowledge when they'd know that would be a possibility, and take measures to preserve knowledge. In that situation, of colonists cut off from the rest of humanity, with what can be regarded as aggressive megafauna preying upon them, they'd copy everything they could to hard drives and take along, as well as producing hardcopy of as much as possible.

The theory just needs a bit of modification. Instead of losing knowledge, they deliberately tech down, so that they can better survive in their new world. This means they can produce more stuff with less industry. This is more plausible.