Is it really possible to live life without any sort of technology/ If we had all of our technology taken away from us, would we be able to manage without it?
Most of us have grown up in a world that completely relies on technology. Just about every aspect of your life utilises technology in some sort of capacity and if you look at it in fine detail it can actually seem quite frightening. Think about it, you war woken up in the morning by an alarm that is electric. You get out of bed and wash with warm water that was heated by a boiler that uses technology in some capacity; you get in your car and drive to work in a car that relies on an engine management system to work, then you arrive at work and start typing away on a computer.
You need some money, so you go to a cash machine that again, relies on computer technology to work. You pay for a pint in the pub and the waitress gives you change form an electronic till. I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
So how would we react if this technological carpet was taken away from under us? I question if we would service to be honest, maybe three or four decades ago we may have coped but now we are SO reliant on IT, we even socialise electronically.
I think that the latest generation would even struggle if you took internet access away from them. They cannot seem to walk down the street without having to ‘tweet’ about where they are going, what they are doing and the last time they picked their nose. The social media boom seems to be a fad that will never go away.
Then there are people’s jobs. I work in the IT Support sector so imagine how many people would be out of work if technology was taken away from them. Well all of us actually because that’s all that we do!!! What on earth would we do for a living without computers? I think I would try to invent one!
Also, think about how much we rely on technology to communicate. All telephony solutions are technology based, GPS and mobile devices rely on satellite technology and email and Skype relies on the internet. The world would soon become a bigger place again without technology, that’s for sure.
Technology needs power. I often wonder what would happen if we had a major power shortage or indeed the earth’s natural resourced eventually run out. People need to start taking their head out from the sand and start putting their thinking cap on, because one day there is a good chance this will become reality.