Could you survive with no technology?

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10 Aug 2010, 1:15 pm

I can do it, I've done it before while I went on a trip for 3 days and I survived pretty well.
But without light, I'd freak out.

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10 Aug 2010, 1:19 pm

I could get away with not being near technology for weeks at a time, I have done it before on camping trips. However, I could not go all Thoreau like and forfeit technology for years at a time.

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10 Aug 2010, 1:21 pm

Dnuos wrote:

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

As long as I have my piano, Mizar(I named it after a star), I'm fine.

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10 Aug 2010, 1:33 pm

I require modern medicine to live

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10 Aug 2010, 1:53 pm

It would be tough without internet porn, but we'd all have to make sacrifices :arrow:

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10 Aug 2010, 2:19 pm

Could I survive? Sure.

Would I want to? Not at first. But I suspect that I am more adaptable than I give myself credit for.

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10 Aug 2010, 2:22 pm

Dnuos wrote:

Yeah that would include your cd players (everything electric), but not your non electric instruments.

Tomasu wrote:

^^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.

Yeah mainly electronic entertainment. You know the things that take away a lot of your time.

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10 Aug 2010, 3:09 pm

I'd miss the internet, video games and my ipod/music collection the most. Eventually I'd have to teach myself how to play an instrument instead.

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10 Aug 2010, 3:56 pm

nope i could not. I tried last week on vacation and was desperately searching for wifi everywere i went.

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10 Aug 2010, 4:29 pm

I could survive but I would be very bored and agitated.

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10 Aug 2010, 4:54 pm

KaiG wrote:

I'd miss the internet, video games and my ipod/music collection the most. Eventually I'd have to teach myself how to play an instrument instead.

Instruments are really fun if you find the right one.

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10 Aug 2010, 6:53 pm

I'd find it extremely difficult. I mean, we take modern technology so much for granted. It's easy to say 'I probably could survive without these things' in the comfort of a warm room, but when you're in the middle of a windy forest with nothing but your clothes, a tent, and the ability to make small fires, it would be very different...

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12 Aug 2010, 8:10 am

Yes. If the Amish are, we can too!

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12 Aug 2010, 12:08 pm

I'm wired, as I type this, on my Wii. I have my controller, in my left hand, and a vast selection of YouTube music, to the right.

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12 Aug 2010, 1:23 pm

takemitsu wrote:

I would love it. I believe that a lot of people here would benefit too, as everyone would again be forced to except everyone because there would be no computer or TV screen to hide behind. This probably would take some time to come into affect. I'm sure it would be gut-wrenching to begin with.

I said this assuming that the OP meant that there would be no modern technology, but if there was none at all (no houses, beds, clothes, etc), I don't think I'd last long. It's too far of a fall from the life I've known. Our lives are practically godlike compared to those of apes, and without technology, what would be the different between our species? I don't think many people could survive a change so drastic. Everyone would be OK for maybe a week or two, but then the morale would take a nose-dive from (Just alone) eating pretty disgusting things for sustenance. People would go crazy because we've been conditioned all of our lives to hid our primal fears and compulsions, but then our survival depends on exploiting them. The people of the 3rd world and the homeless have the best chance for survival, obviously.

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