Civilisation is more than its great books. Works of literature and history are necessary, but not sufficient. Dante Aligheri had no idea how to facilitate indoor plumbing, William Shakespeare was unable to manufacture the paper that he wrote on, and Aristotle could not grow the bread that he ate.
I cannot tell you whether or not the pen is mightier than the sword, but I can guarantee that the point is moot when you cannot make either of them. And this is what I am going to do about it.
I am going to preserve as much technical knowledge as I can, and I need your help to do it.
The focus is going to be on two things: recipes and instruction manuals. What is concrete composed of? What components does a kettle have?
The general plan is to gather data, sift through it, compress the file size, and send it to as many places as I can for storage.
This post will be updated continuously, mostly with details and logistics. Please reach out if you would like to volunteer either some manuals to preserve or some hard drive space to preserve it.
Onward!
