Total wow that you are attempting this! As well as being awesome, rebuilding the tech tree has clear saving-the-world implications so I’m totally in favour.
Nick Szabo discusses a related idea here and here. Specifically, finding small subsets of modern technology that can be used to recreate the rest, and ideally also create more copies of themselves.
Nick Szabo discusses a related idea here and here. Specifically, finding small subsets of modern technology that can be used to recreate the rest, and ideally also create more copies of themselves.