What technology will survive the coming collapse of civilization?

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Originally Posted by tw

The GM crops will immediately disappear. GM crops do not replicate themselves. --snip

Not so, sir.

That they absolutely *do* replicate is precisely the source of conflict between the factory farmers who use such technologies and the organic farmers downwind whose livelihood is in jeopardy from contamination by the "non-virginal" replicators of the same species.