Depends on how many people survive that actually know how to keep infrastructure going. The biggest danger to a massive population die off is loss of knowledge that keeps people fed and safe and alive. With that sort of loss, big cities will become death zones of starve people who will then go into rural areas and try to take what they can to stay alive. Communities will become a lot more local than before.
You’re right, he did. The most recent reminder I have of what happens when everything breaks down is S.M. Stirling’s novels of the Change (one day all tech stops working. Planes fall out of sky, no cars or guns, nothing. Everyone in the big cities basically starved to death when logistics and everything more complicated than a gear and pulley stopped working). It basically was a return to feudalism.
Depends on how many people survive that actually know how to keep infrastructure going. The biggest danger to a massive population die off is loss of knowledge that keeps people fed and safe and alive. With that sort of loss, big cities will become death zones of starve people who will then go into rural areas and try to take what they can to stay alive. Communities will become a lot more local than before.
You’re right, he did. The most recent reminder I have of what happens when everything breaks down is S.M. Stirling’s novels of the Change (one day all tech stops working. Planes fall out of sky, no cars or guns, nothing. Everyone in the big cities basically starved to death when logistics and everything more complicated than a gear and pulley stopped working). It basically was a return to feudalism.