Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Fire of Learning" channel.

One key factor in determining how long the dark age takes, is how well our libraries are protected. Also, the current move towards renewable, decentralised power generation (solar panels, wind mills etc) may well make the collapse much less deep and total than if it were to occur right now. And a copy of Wikipedia would save us decades if not centuries of time during the dark age.
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@olivergrumitt8033 The nice thing about many forms of renewable energy is that it is decentralised. This makes the system as a whole less sensitive to disruption. The current form of energy production takes an enormous infrastructure to operate, and is very sensitive to disturbances. A small problem can easily shut the whole grid down.
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@dinnerwithfranklin > Without electricity there is no Wikipedia. Wikipedia still fits on a single hard-disk. I imagine there will be monastery-like environments where people will carefully maintain a disk and access device, with locally generated electricity, to study a wikipedia copy. They will probably generate their income by trading hard-copied pages.
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@sebastianlambert8771 The amount of lies in Wikipedia is greatly exaggerated. I find it pretty reliable except perhaps in some contentious subjects, but even then I find their lemmas pretty balanced. They debunk a lot of conspiracy theories, though. Some people don't like that and then go on to claim wikipedia is full of errors. Which is another conspiracy theory.
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@stevenschnepp576 Just because it debunks your pet conspiracy theories doesn't make it unreliable.
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