Currently it’s not only DNA which passes from each human generation to the next, there is also a knowledge evolution. What does that mean, knowledge evolution? People learn all sorts of skills: reading, writing, social, building, analytical, etcetera. These are passed on to new generations via parents, teachers, friends, colleagues. This knowledge will evolve through this passing on. New things are almost always discovered by young people which have fresh new ideas. This could perhaps be regarded as a mutation of knowledge. It could perhaps also explain why people don’t have to reproduce themselves to have fulfilled lives. They can feel useful by writing books, or making music, as long as it is something which they can pass on to new generations.
[…] I just realized how vulnerable our current civilization has become. I talked about knowledge evolution in a previous post, and this type of evolution is really vulnerable. What if we all nuke each other to death, or a major natural disaster (super volcano, meteorite impact…) will cause a planetary disaster? Then its likely we need to start all over. Patches of technology will be left over, but will the people leftover have the knowledge to work with the technology? Will Internet still function? Perhaps its a good idea to start thinking about something like an Open (?) Knowledge Internet Server on the Moon which gathers (open source) knowledge (wikipedia, software, etcetera). And then when the ’shit hits the fang’ its still possible to log into this server. How? Well I guess computers would need be operational to log into the server. Ahh well, its just an idea […]
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