so, thinking about global pandemics, I wonder how resilient US first world economy is. We lost a bit under 1% of the population in the Spanish Flu c. 1918, and it didn't much hurt us. Lincoln killed off 3% of the US population, and while it quite hurt the economy in CSA >
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Lot of the intervening advancement is conceptual, doesn't necessarily require sophistication. W/ 1960-ish tech you could make the Internet; has all the necessary computer & communication links, but now we know how to do packet-switch networks, then they didn't.
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Yeah I mean you can send texts over Ham radio
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