Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
Sean Kelly wrote:
I'd bet it takes longer. Even with incredible knowledge, they'd have
to build the technology from scratch, starting with improvised tools.
Huh, 99% of the people will be full time engaged just in food production.
Well at some point it was said that a McDuff device provides food.
McDuff is right. Trying to get enough food to eat has been the bane of
human existence for essentially our entire existence. The current
obesity epidemic is a startling anomaly.
Even now, I hear the siren call of the poptarts from the kitchen!