Could you survive with no technology?

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i could survive without everything except for (hot) running water, sewage system, refrigerator, stove, AC, electricity in general, washing machine, and most of all, my laptop.

I'd be happy living in a cave... provided I had my laptop, electricity and an internet connection.

I could possibly bare, unless I were to find my excessive laziness can not be suppressed. At that point I would just go crazy.

The question asks "could you survive with no artificial shelter, no clothing, no artifical heat source, no farming, and no hunting aids." The answer is "of course not, except in a very limited number of environments."

This.

There's a reason we didn't leave Africa until we had developed most of the technologies mentioned by Ambivalence.

^^Yaye greetings everyone. I believe this is indeed very interesting. If technology in this case is only electronic entertainment items, then I believe that I may certainly survive. Sorry if I am incorrect however.

If not the above, then there may be some different possibilities. I assume by technology then that that this includes human-made items and energy.

^^Ummmmiies. I believe the first possibility is that I live outside of a human society. I would find this very difficult as I would most possibly be forced to join a human society or have great difficulty finding anywhere to live or any food due to the extent of human society.

The second possibility is that the technology of the world suddenly vanished. Then I believe this would perhaps be of even greater difficulty to survive as there would be so many humans and a despotic society would be the result.

^^I am sorry if this is incorrect of me however.

Well, when I go on vacation, the only electronic I'd bring is my cell phone and maybe my PSP for the carride. The rest is clothes, money and toiletries. I could survive without it, I would just be bored if I didn't have social interaction.

Does this include CD players, and even Vinyl Record Players for that matter? No way to listen to music but via concerts which I don't usually have money for anyways? Or I'd have to listen to myself play, but it would be all my own works, I couldn't play anyone else's because I'd have to then listen to their music multiple times, which then I couldn't do.

On that note, no electric guitar or keyboards? All-acoustic would sound nice, but horribly inconvenient...

This would be pure hell.

On a side note, I could become a composer, bandleader, or musician in an orchestra. Beethoven's orchestra... which wouldn't be so bad.

hmm

I could not stay sane in a world without technology. Technology is my life!

I could do pretty well without "high" technology, most of my machine tools date from the 1940's or earlier, and in the case of my lathes could even be converted to treadle power and run manually. Given enough time, I could produce a steam engine to run my larger mill and other power tools off of fly-wheels like in the 19th century, and produce just about anything I need to get by. As much as I like the internet and video games, I could make do without them given enough creative outlets, and quite frankly my metalwork would probably improve with so many less distractions.

I couldn't survive without a computer.

Look I know you know you don't like me because of my faith, but keep your sarcastic remarks to yourself. If you don't wanna add anything thoughtful to my threads, don't read them in the first place.

A week without them? No problem at all. From just before last x-mas and to the first week of this year, we were without net connection. I was disappointed at first, but I managed just fine the 2 1/2 weeks it lasted, and when restored I checked my mail, but most certainly didn't go berserk on the net.
There was nothing on the telly that interested me, so I did what I did before the time of the net: I enjoyed spending time with my beloved Nemo, and I read.

The basic needs would really be a problem though. No electric heat? We don't have anything else where I live, and Norway can be mighty cold in winter... Problems with warming food and conserving it. No factories. No production... Life in a no-tech civilization would be very hard, at least if we came from tech and then lost it somehow. If we always had lived like that, it'd be the normal life and no worries.

If only entertainment was gone I'd miss them but I'd manage without same as I did before the net. I've never lived without TV, but i'd manage. Most things on doesn't interest me anyway. I'd manage but miss it. I would miss DVDs, the net, listening to my mp3 and playing video games...
Thank heavens for books and pets!

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With books, yes, yes I could.

I suppose you've got a point there. Still, I'd miss the internet terribly, most of all. My dvds, too.