Iterating to Greatness

Iterative development

Let’s imagine for a moment that we are somehow propelled 1,000 years into the future. There is no record of how it happened, but society has collapsed. The people we encounter live as they might have before the industrial revolution. Our current understanding of communication, travel, and medicine has all vanished. We, however, keep that knowledge and are capable of rebuilding what we once had. How should we go about it, starting with the problem of transportation over long distances?