Question:
I wonder....?
What do you think the world would be with out technology? I believe that it could become quite hectic. Although the world is already hectic, so give me you're opinion...I can't decide.
Terror or Freedom
Additional Details6 months ago
~taps his foot~ what the heck? is there only going to be 1 answer? Agh! Hurry up people >.<
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I think the reason you aren't getting a lot of answers is that the question appears as "I wonder....?". A lot of people are just going to pass it up without looking to find out what the actual question is.
I think that without technology, most of humanity would soon perish. The reason I say this is that technology includes things mankind has long taken for granted, like speech, weapons, irrigation, civilization, and so on. You can evaluate any technology by the action it promotes, such that it stands to reason that as writing found its way to papyrus (more portable than the previous format - stone tablets,) improvements came to pass in road-building in order to transfer information more quickly. Later, the printing press made the mass dissemination of information possible (even more so than the assembly hall). In more recent times, take the example of Foster's Lager, which used to be imported to the US from Australia. Someone decided to find a suitable place in Canada to grow the right grains and transferred information on how to brew the beer just like they do in Australia. Only now it doesn't have to travel halfway around the world to get to the US. So, while technology (speech) once made it possible for two humans to negotiate meaning between themselves, various extensions of that capability (from writing to the internet) have extended our capability for speech and made it increasingly more efficient, so that instead of shipping goods, we can ship information. My reaction to a world without technology would be one of terror, for as long as I survived.