vvvre: #357 Belafon

I doubt it. He’s a scientist. I often wonder if, people were placed in an area with enough food but nothing but raw materials otherwise but with the knowledge of modern technology, how long it would take to get to, say, the technological equivalent of the early 20th century.

There is a lot of speculative fiction that’s been written on this. I guess he’s tweeting to make speculation more popular, but he’s on very well-trodden ground.