> flashlight. Rebuilding? Without the existing infrastructure 
> (in the wilderness), how many people would be capable of 
> building/making ANYTHING?  Other than Tony, could you make a 
> battery? a bulb? 
I'd have to think for a bulb. I'd have plenty of time
while growing the spuds for a battery though :-)
> Do you really know how to extract the 
> materials needed from the ground?
The best way is to get someone else to do the digging.
> Who said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is 
> indistinguishable from magic."  ?
That was my thesis, thank you for reading it.
Arthur C Clarke also said it, possibly a little 
earlier (but once I get bulb and battery sorted, I'm
moving straight onto the time machine and the subsequent
law suit :-))
Antonio
 
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Antonio Carlini             arcarlini_at_iee.org
Received on Sun May 11 2003 - 17:03:00 BST