In the past, I've talked about some few survival skills that everyone should know how to do, skills like swimming and driving, but earlier today, I was in my head as usual and I found myself thinking about other survival skills, it just felt like the more time I spent thinking about the topic, the most useless I realize that I am.
For someone who is an African and has lived his entire life in Africa, one would think that I would know how to make a fire if I found myself washed ashore on a deserted island somewhere. How I got to the island is not important, but the fact that I sincerely don't know how to build a fire without a lighter or a match is really disappointing and this isn't just because I'm African...I just feel like everyone should know how to build a fire without a lighter.
As a matter of fact, when you think about it, there are a lot of things many of us don't know how it's made, and some of these things are stuff that we make use of on a regular basis, if not everyday.
One question that I asked myself and kinda confirmed that I truly have no knowledge whatsoever when it comes to making things for myself by myself, was when I imagined that somehow I had time traveled back in time and found myself in a world where it's like the 1600BC or something, and there's literally no tech, no nothing... I had asked myself what I thought I would be able to invent in that world with the current knowledge that I have right now?
Sadly, I couldn't come up with anything, not even one thing.. And this is because while I might be able to place some dtuff together, I don't actually know how to make those things from scratch. All I know is I go to the market to buy the necessary materials and then put it all together. But that wouldn't be the case back then because there will be no market to buy those materials, because those materials wouldn't have been invented or created yet.
Anyways, the same question applies to you guys too. What piece of tech or advancement that we have here today, that you feel you will be able to create all by yourself if you find yourself in a place like that?