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The title is a bit over dramatic but, per the title, if you could contribute with one piece of knowledge to a book that every single individual should learn from in order to kickstart a civilization, what would be yours?

My personal choice would be the process of soap making, from scratch.

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[-] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's hard to choose "one piece" of knowledge, so I would try to persuade whoever is writing the book to include the time traveler's cheat sheet. https://i.imgur.com/O6vSrvq.jpg

I didn't make it, but includes a lot of information that didn't have an intuitive path to discovery, but a lot of practical benefits for humanity. If I were to add to it I would try to include at least descriptions of a few other things:

  • batteries
  • engines
  • simple computers (although this may be more involved than the earlier parts combined, so perhaps just simple logic gate diagrams)
  • genes
  • a guttenberg press
  • lenscrafting
  • a world map
  • calculus
  • special and general relativity (also complicated certainly, but could be useful later)
  • and basically as many physics equations as I can think of
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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