[altcognito]

Survival bias. I get this is a joke but...

There are many societies which have collapsed. We can't know who predicted it because they are dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse

And of course, this list will no longer exist after societal collapse.

[hamdingers]

Societal collapse does not necessarily mean the loss of all writing or knowledge of that society. The wikipedia article you linked to proves this.

[fragmede]

Out there, somewhere, is a nerd, laser etching Wikipedia onto metal plates, and burying them to be dug up later, just to be able to say, I knew this would happen!

[chairmansteve]

Needs to carved in stone if they are serious.....

[QuiDortDine]

I think it's glass actually? Or something like glass.

[fukka42]

Then Ruin would be able to influence what is written.

[xiphmont]

sort of like The Order of St. Liebowitz the Engineer from _A Canticle for Liebowitz_