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This essay does a good job of explaining why it's probably possible in principle and why in practice it might be quite difficult:
https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation...
(Incidentally, I highly recommend that author's book _ The Knowledge_, which is a more extended meditation on industrial civilisation and what it would take to reinvent it if we lost it.)
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This essay does a good job of explaining why it's probably possible in principle and why in practice it might be quite difficult:
https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation...
(Incidentally, I highly recommend that author's book _ The Knowledge_, which is a more extended meditation on industrial civilisation and what it would take to reinvent it if we lost it.)