Our descendents will have to get ahold of a pair of intelligent beings to r epair the machines we left behind. Like the Star Trek episode "The Menageri e" which was based on "The Cage" where the Talosians reached out to get a m ate for their female human, which they deemed was of a species adequate for the task.
However, after too many decades in consumer electronics repair and a few ot her things, I have determined that the project will not succeed because thi ngs are simply not repairable.
Engineers do not think of that these days. The stuff youse guys build is on e thing, but people will not have cars or TV sets or a whole bunch of other s*it because the goal of the manufacturer is to make the consumer totally dependent. I have fought and won this battle for many years, but they have gotten so good at it that now they are about ready to just pour the whole t hing into potting compound, but there is simply no need. Enough proprietary parts and you got it licked.
And consumer electronics is one of the biggest pollution problems out there . We only got so many landfills. As far as I am concerned, this is worse th an global warming. Between this s*it and the fracking we will not have any fresh water anymore, and will have to put up desalination plants like the o nes we paid for in the middle east which allowed its expansion to become a (well goaded though) threat.
Basically we need to get tough on these MFs. Require a seven year warranty on anything that costs over $100. That would do it. They won't even sell pa rts. Buddy of mine buys a new DLP and it needs a ballast, the part is no lo nger available even though the thing is under warranty ? I think some of th e good countries have laws about this s*it, and California used to at least require you to make parts available, but they got around that. Even tho0ug h I am pretty sure that after a few back office meetings with some industry lobbyists it was repealed, but by pricing the parts ridiculous they got th at covered anyway. The thing is $100, a new fuse is $200. No law against th at.