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ppTRN:
Prepping, refered to survial, is the art of being prepared for any natural or antropological catastrophe by always having a small bag that allow you to survive in arsh enviroments for 72 hours. Inside a prepper's bag you'll find stuff like matches, water filters, rope, med kit and so on.

The world as we know it ended, and you (a prepper, but also an EE) managed to survive not only the first few days, but even the first few years. Now you live in a small comunity that grew with time, you have small houses, running water, even hot water, coltivated land and a small farm perfectly able to sustain you. People around you is safe, procreating, but all of you have lost every piece of electronic tecnology you have ever knew of.

Now that you are definately settled, you go back to your house after a long day of work, and find that old forgotten suitcase that you prepped before the apocalipse. Inside of it there is everithing you prepped in terms of electronics. Thanks to those things you are now able to provide to your small comunity with electrical power, small electronic security sistems, you name it. You even have students, to teach them the long forgotten phisics of electricity. Thanks to your efforts, not only your settlement is the most prolificent (you can pastorize milk, exactly at the temperature you set your system to work!) but is also the happiest and will be the one that will rise the man and woman that will became the first new EE.

You are the prepper. What's in YOUR bag?

.RC.:
Problem with these situations is they tend to have a bit of an optimistic outlook.

If you have reverted back to a medieval style of living the most important thing will be knowledge on how to build stuff.  Electronics will not last long before time decays them.  So developing the technology to have things like paper, printing and so on, so you can keep the knowledge that has already been discovered in a form that can be easily accessed.

So the most important thing would be knowledge in a long term storage that can be easily accessed.  At the moment that would be simple paper books.

magic:
IMO modern industry is so dependent on electronics that you won't be able to have things like houses and running water without electricity. It will be repeating most of the path from stone age to the industrial revolution by hand, and may take longer than a few years.

You'd be better off smuggling a bag of nails and a hammer than your DMM.

m k:
Technology steps can't be hopped over.

Making a coil from a wire is easy but making a wire from an ore is not.

PlainName:
At the start you shouldn't need to make wire from ore - there is plenty of it about and it just takes knowledge and resourcefulness to acquire and use. So some technology steps can be skipped, but you need to press on and use what remains to rebuild the supply chain to take advantage. Hang around too long and that possibility will be lost.

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