Luisa Rodriguez, how hoardable is knowledge, tech, and power post collapse. She seems to assume that tech will be developed if it’s ‘advantageous to people’ but advantageous to who is the real question. What if certain tech developments are hoardable, and we can be stuck in a largely pre-industrial state where a minority hoard tech while worsening resource shortages just to maintain their power? Would colonisation be an ok test case for asymmetries of knowledge and tech being a stable situation. ‘information wants to be free’ research may be relevant about the sustainability of such situations. How inevitable were the feedback loops that led to the industrial revolution is another way of framing the same question.
Knowledge wanting to be free supports the idea that the high levels of privacy in the 20th c west was just a historical anomaly. Compare it with Rome or Heian Japan for instance.