//what about in the event of a nuclear war where there would be, undoubtedly, "some" survivors scattered across the planet.//
With technology, upon which we have come to depend, gone, I often wonder how, with only a few survivors, the human race would pick itself up and start again – and how long it would take it to regain its current knowledge? I imagine the survivors relating their history to new generations, telling stories of the incredible technology that man had once possessed, of the amazing machines that existed, of flights into space, of wonderful medicine – and once those eye witnesses died, their tales being carried further down the generations and eventually passing into the realms of mythology until such time that man was capable of re-inventing and rediscovering it all.