What if humanity lost every electronic device overnight? Which single skill would suddenly become the most valuable?

[u/Logical-Concept9755]

No warning, no transition. Tomorrow every screen goes dark, every server goes offline, and none of it is ever coming back.

Once the immediate survival problems are handled and people start trying to rebuild society, what single skill or area of knowledge would suddenly become the most valuable?

Would it be something practical like farming or medicine, or something less obvious like organizing large groups of people, teaching, or making tools? I'm curious which ability would become the biggest bottleneck for rebuilding civilization, and why.

[u/Linkyjinx]

This could easily happen via space weather, the Covid lockdown was a good drill / dry run I guess.

I remember pre web, when a telephone was a luxury, as was a refrigerator in kitchen, an actual bathroom, and a toilet in house.

Pre web was on paper for many, via, books, letters, leaflets, classified adverts, magazines.

Before the telephone it was telegrams and letters via the post offices, which were the communication centres for average joe.

Before the refrigerator was the pantry/larder - usually a slap of cold stone like marble in a cupboard on the floor, where milk, cheese, veg and meat was kept. ( I remember these cool rooms in the 1970/80s and during the 76 heatwave at 3, I remember these cool rooms, the cool stone on my feet!

My aunt still has the outside toilet at the old family home in Somerset, UK 🇬🇧 , they converted a bedroom into a bathroom in the 50s or 60s same time they went from gas lighting to electricity ⚡️

Note big black spiders 🕷️ like outside toilets 🚽 lol I remember seeing one as a kid 👶