The operating system is designed to work with ubiquitous, easy-to-scavenge components in a future where consumer electronics are a thing of the past.
Between nuclear weapons, climate disaster, and tech bros' unbridled thirst for control over our lives, it sure does feel like the end is approaching "nigh" status.And let's face it, who among us doesn't secretly believe that they will be among the survivors?
In a post-apocalyptic future, be it nuclear wasteland or Anthropocene nightmare, a common sci-fi trope is that those able to harness old world technology will have the upper hand. Collapse OS is a new open source operating system built specifically for use during humanity's darkest days. According to its creator, software developer Virgil Dupras, Collapse OS is what the people of the future will need to reconfigure their scavenged iPhones. For now, though, he's hosting the project on GitHub and looking for contributors.
“I'm doing this to mitigate a risk that I think is real. Not inevitable, but likely enough to warrant a modest effort,” Dupras said in an email.
According to the Collapse OS site, Dupras envisions a world where the global supply chain collapses by 2030. In this possible future—kind of a medium-apocalypse—populations won’t be able to mass produce electronics anymore, but they’ll still be an enormous source of political and social power. Anyone who can scavenge electronics and reprogram them will gain a huge advantage over those who don't.......MORE
More handy hints in:
When The Apocalypse Comes Mushrooms May Save Your Life
Although this article focuses on foraging in the woods I think the little (fun) guys would be even more satisfying if grown on the corpses of my enemies.*"Warped sense of humour could be ‘sign of impending dementia’"
Or something.
What?
We're talking apocalypse here, lifeboat ethics and all that, resource allocation, build the new city with their bones, reduce, reuse, recycle etc.
Okay, maybe I should stick with the 're' theme and re-read the post* on the medical implications of a turn to the dark side in ones sense of humor.
Anyway, after that rather disjointed (!) intro here's the headline story from Oxford American, originally published in the Spring 2013 issue and re-posted March 28:...
Following last week's "Long-winded speech could be early sign of Alzheimer's disease, says study" a "friend" sent this along.Since you are the kind of person who intends not just to survive but to thrive:
I can't catch a freaking break this month....
Possibly also of interest from The Knowledge:
How to Rebuild the World From ScratchIncluding such handy topics as:
- Paperfuge: low-tech solution for hospitals
- Apocalypse-proof Kindle
- How To Make your own Gasifier Stove
- How To… Make your own wind turbine
- How to reinstate global communications
- How to build a house: rising from the ashes
- On The Anatomy Of Thrift: Side Butchery
- How to start fire with IKEA products
- How To: Make a Gasifier Stove
- How to start fire with everyday items
Should you get the leccy flowing again there is also NT's sister publication, Low-Tech Magazine.
And 2017's:
When the Time Comes, Will You Be Ready To Rebuild Civilization?
Yes you will !!
With the Global Village Construction Set:...
...You'll be able to extract alumina from clay to electrolyze into aluminum to make darn near anything, grow, harvest, mill and bake your own food, harvest and refine biofuels, turn trees into houses, build a still, communicate with radios and much much, more!
"In a post-apocalyptic world, which task would you assign the highest priority? Locating a sustainable food source, re-establishing a functioning government, procreating, or preserving the knowledge of mankind?" **The second of Sheldon Cooper's three barriers, 'Each more daunting than the last.'
Big Bang Theory-Series 3 Episode 22 – The Staircase Implementation
Daunting? Sure it is. If it were easy everyone would be rebuilding civilizations. As The Economist put it in their prepper issue, while apparently channeling Gloria Gaynor:...
The Economist: "When civilisation collapses, will you be ready?"
From The Economist:
Preparing for the apocalypse
I will survive
AFTER “the Crunch”—the total collapse of the global economy—trade seized up...
At first I was afraidReaders have always enjoyed scaring themselves with post-apocalyptic yarns...
I was petrifiedJason Charles, an affable African-American fireman in New York....
But that's not all! Here's the "Open-sourced blueprints for civilization" TED talk:But I grew strongPreppers love this sort of debate. Mr Rawles’s blog carries endless discussions of the merits of different ham radios or types of body armour...
Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).
You read that right, get started for as little as ten thousand dollars!
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