Reddit mentions of How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

I dunno, but maybe try Release That Witch. (The translation is not good at all, but it's readable, give it like twenty chapters, y'know?) You could also try The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, The Disaster Diaries: One Man's Quest to Learn Everything Necessary to Survive the Apocalypse and How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler.

Ryan North is a bona fide amazing dude. He's also made:

• That Time traveler poster that once was reposted everywhere, and the same in book form
  
• A chooseable-path version of Hamlet
  
• A chooseable-path version of Romeo and Juliet
  
• Co-edited two books about a machine that tells you how you will die. You can download the first one for free.

Considering the clarifications made already, there has been something similar made already

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/ff-guidestones/

Though I imagine that would be incomplete.

Depending on the type of collapse, we could and would lose a lot of information, all cutting edge research (since that's mostly preserved digitally), though that would be less important, since we'd have to rebuild the machinery in order to use it.

As someone else mentioned, seed banks are a good start as well. As far as knowledge itself goes, there are two books I'd recommend, The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization (linkhttps://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047) which I have read and is interesting in an entertaining way, and even somewhat useful; and How to Invent Everything (link https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Stranded-ebook/dp/B07B2LNVBY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1543607051&sr=1-1&keywords=how+to+invent+everything) which I haven't read yet, but is a similar idea. This one I have read, and it's kinda cool.

To get an idea for how difficult it will be to restart manufacturing at our current level, you may want to also check out The Toaster Project (link https://www.amazon.com/Toaster-Project-Attempt-Electric-Appliance-ebook/dp/B007N209P4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1543607108&sr=1-1&keywords=toaster+project) where someone tries to build a cheap toaster from scratch, and how impossible it is.

Good news, there’s a book that addresses this exact problem: How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler.

A time traveler already stole your idea: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B2LNVBY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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