Do we really need computers?

Question

Turn them all off now,would everything else stop?

Answer 1

Not eveeerything, just the majority ;]

E.g

Street lights

Radios

Life Support Machines

Traffic Lights

Banks

Places with automatic doors

You know

Just the unimportant stuff =/

Answer 2

Yes. You needed one to post your question.

Answer 3

Yes.

Answer 4

You're the one of thousands asking various people online over long distances to answer a question =)

Answer 5

alot of everyday convinces will be severally compromised, however the question needs to be expanded before we start to consider how 'Uman kind would survive.

for example, by computers do you simply mean personal computers, or all forms of micro processing?

for a short time there would be riots etc, however nothing would truely stop, it would just take a while before people returned to the farms etc.

if you actually did terminate all 'computers' it would quickly sort out war and unemployment though, as every farm in world will start to higher alot more people to come tend to the fields again because most of there tractors wont work any more. and as for war, all the big 'nasty' weapons require microchips etc, and seeing as it's mainly the yanks at war with people, they'll just go awol after no orders.

viva la Revolución

Answer 6

No. Absolutely not. My grandpa NEVER used a computer ever in his entire life. Neither did my dad for that matter.

We don't need television either.

We don't need radio or photography.

What we DO need is CHOCOLATE

Answer 7

Supermarkets, banks, emergency services, etc would all pack up.

Chaos !

Being an electrical power engineer, if I shut down an area of the grid, we are three days from civil riots.

Same with our everyday reliance on computers.

Answer 8

Surprisingly no somethings are run on servers and have command prompts that keep them running or have them on standby.  You might not see airlines, some trains, and the internet not working.  Anything that can be accessed by Computer won't be available.

Answer 9

Things worked fine in the early 60's/70's without them so we could go there again.

Answer 10

Life would return back to normal if we didn't have computers. People would go out and make friends and live longer and be much happier.

I'm switching mine off right now!

Answer 11

short answer yes

Answer 12

Your using one to ask the question aren't you.....YES!