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[Fallout Universe] If someone with advanced knowledge of modern day computers(how they work, how to build them, understanding programming) were transfered into the Fallout universe, what kind of advancements could they make?

Would they be able to bring order to the world? Make it better? Become rich?
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They'd be pretty badly hamstrung to start, to be honest. Fallout's tech development followed a very different path than ours, so a lot of a computer expert's knowledge wouldn't transfer to working with their systems. The hardware is different, meaning the underlying logic is different, meaning the program languages are different. In some ways, they're worse off than an individual coming in with no computer knowledge at all; not only do they need to learn something new, but they need to keep their knowledge of "our computers" separate from their knowledge of "these other computers". 

That said, someone with the patience and skill to become a computer expert could probably do pretty well for themselves, in the right circumstances. Once the initial learning curve is overcome, they would be able to bring new insights to the post-War tech field, since they bring a very different perspective to the field; in addition to asking a lot of "stupid" questions that people have never really bothered to answer and inadvertently challenging dogma just because they don't know it's there, they also have a completely alien perspective from the local techies. If they could get in with a relatively civilized community long enough to get their bearings (NCR, Followers of the Apocalypse, Lyon-era East Coast Brotherhood, some parts of the Commonwealth, etc.), they could make a very strong go of it.