Lewis Dartnell is an astro-biologist, Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster and the author of The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch. His research is on whether microbial life could survive the radiation on Mars. His books are about something closer to home: how little any of us understand about the world we depend on.
Lewis and I run the thought experiment properly. If you woke up tomorrow and civilisation had gone, what kills you first, where do you go, how long does a supermarket actually keep you alive and how many people do you need before you can rebuild anything at all? The answer to one of those is 55 years and it is not the one you expect.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - The Big Red Reset Button
00:04:26 - Get Out Of The Cities
00:08:14 - A Supermarket Keeps You Alive 55 Years
00:09:48 - You Need 10,000 People
00:13:21 - We Outsourced All The Handiwork
00:17:45 - You Have To Preserve Everything
00:19:19 - Every Technology Is A Weapon
00:23:14 - The One Thing He Would Take
00:25:41 - Mechanical AI
00:28:35 - Resilient And Fragile At The Same Time
00:32:38 - We Invent Because We Are Lazy
00:34:05 - The Gasifier Stove
00:37:57 - The Cars That Ran On Wood
00:42:03 - Making Glass From A Bag Of Sand
00:51:38 - He Made His Own Photograph
00:55:43 - Printing A Page From Scratch
00:59:47 - The Kindle Apocalypse Plan
01:05:39 - Could We Actually Live On Mars?
01:11:48 - The Radiation Problem
01:19:02 - The Next Book
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