Interesting mental exercise. It was explored in A Canticle for Leibowitz[0], novel in 3 parts (Fiat homo, fiat lux, fiat voluntas tua), the first set in the immediate post nuclear-war world, second 600 years after towards the end of the new middle ages, and the third 600 later in a typical futuristic scenario. The first part covers the religious efforts to preserve knowledge (even if said knowledge was not understood), and the second in the new renaissance from wielding such knowledge.
I wonder how LLMs, with their mistakes and all, would play a role in rebuilding civilization. Most media these days is not prepared for staying stable for 20 years, not sure how much and for how long it could be preserved. Perhaps mechanical hard drives in certain isolated environments?
Not impossible but I doubt we get another Industrial Revolution.
Well, we did it in an ice age the first time.
The demand a smaller civilization would have should be quite less significant than what we currently have, so it stands to reason it would make sense for them to use those
So long as we don't forget that it's important to wash our hands and clean out wounds with soap, we're already centuries out of the middle ages.
