"Reproducing where we are now would in some ways be harder than getting here was.."
Opposing factor to speed up these sorts of setbacks is that much of the experimentation/testing would already be done. We'd know the fuel efficiency of coal for example. We'd know not to bother with methods that have failed.
I'm more curious what technologies we'd realize never needed to exist. Would electric cars be the route we choose? Would open source operating systems be 100% adopted...etc
Opposing factor to speed up these sorts of setbacks is that much of the experimentation/testing would already be done. We'd know the fuel efficiency of coal for example. We'd know not to bother with methods that have failed.
I'm more curious what technologies we'd realize never needed to exist. Would electric cars be the route we choose? Would open source operating systems be 100% adopted...etc