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Get some Werner Herzog for it and I’m in.
Feelgood dystopian sci-fi for misanthropes should be a thing if it isn’t already.
Well there is that cat game.
This is just copy pasted from the Splatoon lore.
When will my library have this book?
I demand more information on the Bronze Age raccoons
Someone is overestimating how long a modern appliance will last.
Given that raccoons baboons and octopus have developed sapiens and civilization in just 1000 years I do not think it’s the most egregious part.
Especially impressive for octopus who somehow had to develop fire, modern smelting processors, electronics, and high energy particle physics while living in an aquatic environment.
Nah, they won’t be able to do their fucking job but I’d bet every non-essential part will last. That washing machine craves telling it’s dumb fuck user “D80” and then proceed to do nothing with the load.
As long as that control board can get a couple watts it will sing its song to hopefully coax some poor fool into feeding it.
I would wonder how many Terabytes of Data are being sent around in a fully-autonomous world without any human input.
Sounds like the scifi short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury. It’s about a post-apocalypse, automated house that tries to maintain a daily routine, long after humanity is gone.
Octopodes or Octopuses.
I see Salome and Paul are up to their usual shenanigans under the sea
Came here for this. Thank you, well-read stranger!
Other species will have a really hard time following us, because our own playbook is no longer available.
Extraction of resources out of the ground is getting harder and harder. We’ve exhausted the easily extracted ore for iron/tin/copper mining, and modern mining of those materials requires much more sophisticated technology. So a Bronze Age and Iron Age can’t really come up from the ground up.
And without easily extracted fossil fuels providing cheap and abundant energy, industrialization would be a pretty difficult hurdle to overcome.
The best hopes of a post-human civilization will come from whatever species learns to recycle and reuse human waste.
And maybe the leftovers of human agriculture (any plant species that efficiently produce lots of biomass that don’t require active planting/tilling/irrigation/fertilization, whatever domesticated animals can survive as feral colonies) will have lasting effects, too.
We have left a lot of the metal we have mined easily accessible
Following intelligences would probably have trouble with energy. Our infrastructure will have failed, and we have used all the easy to get coal and oil
There may be enough left to teach them how to make a spinning generator and synchronous motor. I wonder how long the magnets will stay magnetic in permanent magnet motors
Why would they need to mine ore when we just left all of it laying around?
Landfills are the mining boom of the future.
We can hope.
Reminds me of ‘Service Model’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Combo of Service Model and Children of Ruin (also by Adrian Tchaikovsky).
for anyone that wants whis concept as an entire sci-fi story:
this is almost literally the plot of “children of time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky!
excellent trilogy, but the first part can be read as a standalone story!
Yikes, 20w wait on my library’s network.
I do have a hold, but this is why I haven’t been reading much lately
That’s why I just default to using libgen.
i mean…yeah, it’s a really popular book! for good reasons ;)
I’ve been meaning to check out their novels. Thanks for the reminder.
Seconded. They are great novels, and quite original!
If humanity is extinct what triggered the stupidfridge’s message about orange juice? If humans aren’t consuming it then who is?
If humanity is extinct who is running the power plants?
Raccoon, duh
I don’t have a smart fridge, but my thermostat has to remind me over and over to replace the filter. It’ll just keep reminding me weekly until it’s done
It was out of orange juice before the extinction.
Gamma World
reads like “There will come soft rains”.
I had the same thought, even down to the Nemoy reading
