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> If we preserve open hardware and software, then we could rebuild in the case of civilizational decline and the accompanying knowledge loss

...can we?

I'm sometimes a little concerned about how complicated chip fabs are. They feel like something that could take generations to rebuild, even if we had all the knowledge on what to do.

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Home photo-lithography and chemical etching setups aren't common, but have been done by several people. We wouldn't be able to jump straight to 14NM, but we would probably be able to get to the 500-300nm size relatively quickly (a year or two, maybe, if starting from scratch) and shrink down from there.

Devices would be much bigger and less efficient, but we would be able to run code and pump out 8086 processors within 6 months.

That's just one layer of the stack though. Future archaeologists will also need to create mock npm registries and maven repositories, and set up docker and k8s so they can deploy a complex set of microservices to look up our birthdays.

...all the code to which should be right in the Github Vault, right?

Idk, the hardware part seems much more difficult to me.

Thanks for the laugh! I needed that today :)

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