A Post Apocalypse OS : Collapse OS
Posted: Thu 10 Oct 2019, 10:42
https://collapseos.org/
The goal of this project is to be as self-contained as possible. With a copy of this project, a capable and creative person should be able to manage to build and install Collapse OS without external resources (i.e. internet) on a machine of her design, built from scavenged parts with low-tech tools.
scavenger electronics
I expect our global supply chain to collapse before we reach 2030. With this collapse, we won't be able to produce most of our electronics because it depends on a very complex supply chain that we won't be able to achieve again for decades (ever?).
The fast rate of progress we've seen since the advent of electronics happened in very specific conditions that won't be there post-collapse, so we can't hope to be able to bootstrap new electronic technology as fast we did without a good "starter kit" to help us do so.
Electronics yield enormous power, a power that will give significant advantages to communities that manage to continue mastering it. This will usher a new age of scavenger electronics: parts can't be manufactured any more, but we have billions of parts lying around. Those who can manage to create new designs from those parts with low-tech tools will be very powerful.
Among these scavenged parts are microcontrollers, which are especially powerful but need complex tools (often computers) to program them. Computers, after a couple of decades, will break down beyond repair and we won't be able to program microcontrollers any more.
To avoid this fate, we need to have a system that can be designed from scavenged parts and program microcontrollers. We also need the generation of engineers that will follow us to be able to create new designs instead of inheriting a legacy of machines that they can't recreate and barely maintain.
This is where Collapse OS comes in.
This project is only relevant if the collapse is of a specific magnitude. A weak-enough collapse and it's useless (just a few fabs that close down, a few wars here and there, hunger, disease, but people are nevertheless able to maintain current technology levels). A big enough collapse and it's even more useless (who needs microcontrollers when you're running away from cannibals).
https://collapseos.org/why.html
Further reading :
Collapse OS
https://github.com/hsoft/collapseos
More and more people see the future as bleak, especially kids that have 40, 50, 60, 70 years in front of them. Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?
What do you do to help mitigate the ongoing destruction of ecosystems, the pollution of air, water and soil, the ever increasing output of CO2, the disappearing of more and more animal, insect and bird species, the fragility of supply chains around the world that could collapse in the blink of an eye (our own ecosystem in which we live and prosper)?
No wonder a developer thinks about scavanging parts of electronics in a post apocalyptic world.
The goal of this project is to be as self-contained as possible. With a copy of this project, a capable and creative person should be able to manage to build and install Collapse OS without external resources (i.e. internet) on a machine of her design, built from scavenged parts with low-tech tools.
scavenger electronics
I expect our global supply chain to collapse before we reach 2030. With this collapse, we won't be able to produce most of our electronics because it depends on a very complex supply chain that we won't be able to achieve again for decades (ever?).
The fast rate of progress we've seen since the advent of electronics happened in very specific conditions that won't be there post-collapse, so we can't hope to be able to bootstrap new electronic technology as fast we did without a good "starter kit" to help us do so.
Electronics yield enormous power, a power that will give significant advantages to communities that manage to continue mastering it. This will usher a new age of scavenger electronics: parts can't be manufactured any more, but we have billions of parts lying around. Those who can manage to create new designs from those parts with low-tech tools will be very powerful.
Among these scavenged parts are microcontrollers, which are especially powerful but need complex tools (often computers) to program them. Computers, after a couple of decades, will break down beyond repair and we won't be able to program microcontrollers any more.
To avoid this fate, we need to have a system that can be designed from scavenged parts and program microcontrollers. We also need the generation of engineers that will follow us to be able to create new designs instead of inheriting a legacy of machines that they can't recreate and barely maintain.
This is where Collapse OS comes in.
This project is only relevant if the collapse is of a specific magnitude. A weak-enough collapse and it's useless (just a few fabs that close down, a few wars here and there, hunger, disease, but people are nevertheless able to maintain current technology levels). A big enough collapse and it's even more useless (who needs microcontrollers when you're running away from cannibals).
https://collapseos.org/why.html
Further reading :
Collapse OS
https://github.com/hsoft/collapseos
More and more people see the future as bleak, especially kids that have 40, 50, 60, 70 years in front of them. Is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?
What do you do to help mitigate the ongoing destruction of ecosystems, the pollution of air, water and soil, the ever increasing output of CO2, the disappearing of more and more animal, insect and bird species, the fragility of supply chains around the world that could collapse in the blink of an eye (our own ecosystem in which we live and prosper)?
No wonder a developer thinks about scavanging parts of electronics in a post apocalyptic world.
