Can you live without technology?

Question

who can’t live without their electronics? By this I mean phones, MP3 players, computers, the works. If there’s a switch to it then it counts as being in the electronic family.

if you are one of those people, simply reply with -Signed- and give a brief description

-Signed- I use my computer all the time. And although I could literally live without it, I can't imagine myself doing so.

Answer 1

-signed- think about it if we lived without technology then we wouldent have answers so yeah  

Answer 2

no

Answer 3

I recently cancelled my TV licence, my TV is sitting in my room with the power cable haning over the front of it; as is my video.  I don't know what an MP3 is.  I'm only on this thing for about another 15 months.  Then, as my contract expires, my broadband is going.  There are a few DVD's I enjoy watching, so I'll hang onto my PC until I get bored of those, then that's probably going as well.  I cancelled my TV licence three weeks ago and, honestly, they've been the best three weeks I've had in decades.  I neither know nor care what an xbox, nintendo, gameboy etc etc are.  Far too many people are just throwing their life away; being entertained!

Answer 4

Answer: No.

Considering I live in a tech loving country, I can’t image being completely without any type of device for more then a few days. Electrical devices I use daily are my cell phone, PC, alarm clock, car, radio, fans, and fridge. I don’t own a TV which saves me from a cable/satellite bill, and my internet connection comes with my room rent. I get most of my news via radio or the internet.

Answer 5

-Signed- I can live very well without the technologies of today. I was born into a world that held only copper wires for international communications, national, provincial and local communications. It was called a telephone.

Televisions were black and white and there was no remote control at all. What you did see on television was nothing near to what you see today and you only recieved what your ariel could pick up. All broadcasts were live! Romper Room, afternoon soaps, the evening news, The Honeymooners, and Jack Parr. Nothing was taped, and the television was turned off at the Station of origin at one O'clock in the morning. Mostly they were cut out at midnight and didn't come back on the air till six or seven in the morning.

I grew up on books, and the outdoors because who the h**l would want to sit inside anyways was the attitude of those days. Even on a rainy day, or a January Saturday it was out the door and off to the playgrounds. Television was a bore.

Telephones were to send messages, or call for help, or ask for the doctor to visit because someone in the house was sick.Very few people spent more than fifteen minutes on the telephone. The hour long conversations about nothing that is common today would have been seen as "an absurd waste of time". Gossip was contained to the parlour with close friends, not on a telephone. The first telephone we had was connected to an operator and you could not dial out. You had to pick up the reciever and wait for the operator to come on and take your call and then she would then dial it for you. Where I lived it was a small community of maybe four thousand and we all had " two digit numbers " and I still remember our phone number, "49".

That was it. If I wanted to see Lynn, or Richard on the other side of town I would pick up the phone and request # 35 or # 62.

Emergency rooms were actually for "emergencies" (can you believe that?) we actually used the hospital emergencies for "emergiencies", not for a cold or a cut on the hand or hurt foot, and the men and women had respect for each other. No hospital had to put up signs that forbade cursing or foul language upon pain of "no service" and ejection from the hospital.

I can live without the technologies of today but to be quite frank the personal computer and the Internet are one heck of a great resource centre.

But back when I was born so was a "Library", and it always got you out of the house.

I can live without todays technologies but not technology itself. No matter how simple the tools we have there is still some technology in them. Hand tools or power tools, pencils or computers they all have a bit or a lot of technology behind them.

Answer 6

Humans would be extinct without some level of technology.

We simple are not biologically equipped, with exception of our brains, to obtain sustenance without the use of technology.

Even if it is just a pointed stick its still technology, even if its a pit trap it is still technology.

Answer 7

not in this world but if humanity gave up technological toys, i'd be on board.

Answer 8

-Signed-Life is so much simplier without these things so I am told, right that's why if I may be so bold, I can shower at night with a nice bright light and keep warm in the winter without the ice making my hands bitter and I keep cool in the summer inside of my hummer.  Nope...I like this age, I'll say this to any sage.

Answer 9

I live in the woods. Wind generators power my computer and lights. Water is from a well. Without technology my life would not be much different than it is now.

Answer 10

I don't think so, but some day I'll try.