Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - July 2016
cesium133:
In our society, yes, you don't have to be a wizard to understand rocketry, but this is a society where the common people are deliberately kept in the dark, and the only people we've seen so far who aren't are the "witches".
sitnspin:
You are assuming that Alice's community is representative of ALL communities in the world. Even in our society the average person doesn't know how rockets work, but we have specialists, it would be the same in a 19th century tech level society. To make it a more accurate comparison, think of what an archaeologist knows about ancient cultures versus what the average uneducated person does.
brasca:
After the blink a lot of technology was either lost or ceased to function and presumably text saved on a data device would be included, however, this does not mean that mankind on Earth would be completely thrust back into the stoneage. They would still have knowledge from books to fall back on. Presumably a lot would still be lost in the years that followed, but enough was retained so that 5000 years later a woman living in an era that resembles the 19th century knows more about how rockets work than someone from that actual century.
jwhouk:
Case in point - do you understand how Roman viaducts work?
brasca:
The blink was certainly a technological setback, but at worst humanity reverted back to the iron age and at best the middle ages, however, in 5,000 years the world has only reached a pre industrial age level of development. You would think humanity would rebound and be more advanced than the current era we're living in, but they haven't. Alice mentioned that Earth's resources still haven't recovered since the great war so perhaps that is why development has stunted.
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