Iterating to Greatness
Learn about iterative development.
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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?
Rebuild civilization
How should we go about the above, starting with the problem of transportation over long distances?
Just do it. Build a car so we can get around and get the supplies we need, and we’ll go from there.
Share knowledge. Teach as many people as we can as much as we can and once they’ve been trained, we can start building.
Work with what we have. Experiment with the supplies and materials at hand to build a better means of transportation than walking. Improve it. Do this again and again until we have a viable transport.
Forget it. We’re never going to make this work.
The best answer here is to work with what we have. We start ...