This reminds me of the Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon (which I highly recommend reading).
I've always loved the idea. If you could somehow finance it with Bitcoin, it would be a perfect homage to Stephenson :)
Re:Are We Losing the Secrets of the Masters?
by nekopa on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:06AM
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Second the reading of Cryptonomicon, great book. My idea was originally inspired by reading his Diamond Age many moons ago. I loved the idea of the primer, especially as it started from scratch and worked up to more complex ideas.
The bitcoin idea is great, may have to add that
Re:Are We Losing the Secrets of the Masters?
by krrrh on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @05:08AM
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The people involved in the open source ecology movement are taking a stab at this idea.
Re:Are We Losing the Secrets of the Masters?
by nekopa on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:01AM
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That's a very interesting site. Thanks for the link.
Re:Are We Losing the Secrets of the Masters?
by pogo on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @01:34PM
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On a larger scale, this sounds like the premise behind Asimov's Foundation books. In essence, a visionary mathematician predicts a 30,000 year dark age descending on the Galactic Empire. In response, he creates the Foundation, a remote galactic repository of human knowledge to assist in the reboot.
The A.R.K. Project (Apocalypse Reboot Kit)
The basic idea is to categorize different apocalyptic scenarios (zombies, ww3, comet, biohazard wipe-out, etc) and develop 'kits' to bring back civilization. Some kits could be quite small, maybe a collection of books on how to get power stations back up and running, etc (for scenarios where basically only people got wiped out)to full on room sized kits which may have to go back to the very basics, - teaching people how to read, how to extract ore from the ground and so on.
I thought it could make for an interesting forum based site, with discussions about what would go into each kit, finding old books like the one mentioned in the fine article all the way up to philosophical discussions regarding would you want to reintroduce religion to a primitive society, if not, how would you deal with man's instinct to inquire to the unknown?
I may still try to get it up and running one day...