It was 2015 when I first sketched out my ‘Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash’. Recently, I gave the sketch to my dad, Mick, and he came up with the infinitely more attractive and detailed version you can see above. 2029 seemed exotically, brain-meltingly far away in 2015 but now it’s no further in the future than the beginning of Covid is in the past. Or, to frame it in a way that seems starker and more brutal to me on a personal level: I have a shirt I bought around five years ago that I still think of as “brand new” and am yet to properly unveil in public. With that in mind, I probably should get onto a few pre-Crash jobs I’ve been putting off: make sure I have the landline numbers of all the friends I want to keep in touch with, finally print hard copies of some of my favourite digital photos and put together an album of them, collate all the home addresses of my Substack subscribers who wish to continue to receive these newsletters in A5 pamphlet form as the analogue 30s take hold. As always, it’s probably later than I think.
  • Julian_1_2_3_4_5@slrpnk.net
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    19 days ago

    I have to say cool idea, but realistically if you are not using a apple or other locked down device you device will function without internet, and somebody will be able to create mesh nets or sneaker nets, and those will replace the internet (or are actually already in use right now) and those are so redundant, that as long as there isn’t a solar storm that hard that it literally short circuits all technology, even in some in that case not good enough faradray cages, we will be able to recover pretty fast after the initial panic

  • darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org
    4·
    19 days ago

    While I believe the World Wide Web is in trouble, the Internet is a different thing. This is survivalist/prepper paranoid bullshit. Some of you people sound like the misogynistic crap spewed by Brad Pitt’s character in Fight Club, modern primitive nonsense. Get a fucking grip.

  • Allero@lemmy.today
    4·
    19 days ago

    One half of the post is prepper mentality and the other is the rant about good old times.

    The world changes forever, and no amount of throwing back will get you where the world has been. And no, Internet isn’t going anywhere, it’s not a singular clearly defined entity, but rather a giant decentralized system.

  • taanegl@beehaw.org
    2·
    20 days ago

    Those of us who know how to write cursive will run thungst, mostly because nobody would be able to read what we write lol

    The world would be run by doctors, is what I’m saying.