The Gingery machine bootstrap is one of the coolest things which has ever been written.
It's relaxing, to know that there's a technological floor below which humanity can't fall, given literacy and a collection of seven books. And it's a pretty high level of technology.
I kinda love that while you can't make books with a lathe, you can make the tools (to make the tools) for a printing press with a lathe so it still mostly works.
It's relaxing, to know that there's a technological floor below which humanity can't fall, given literacy and a collection of seven books. And it's a pretty high level of technology.