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If there were some kind of catastrophe that ended civilization, is there any way that the survivors could continue to use computers? I suppose modern electronic equipment can last pretty long before it starts breaking down, but the replacement components, semiconductor chips, wouldn't be manufactured by our plucky gang of survivors. I would think it would require too much infrastructure. Maybe they could go back to using vacuum-tubes, which might be more feasible for a small group to manufacture on their own.
Or maybe someday soon, people will invent biologically-based computation using DNA, and then it would just be necessary to keep the line of computing organisms alive.
Thoughts?
Or maybe someday soon, people will invent biologically-based computation using DNA, and then it would just be necessary to keep the line of computing organisms alive.
Thoughts?