A world with out computers?

Question

How would you life be affected if we didn't have computers? Would it be harder or easy? Would we be smarter or work harder?

Simmy: I don't think that computer make us dumb they just help out.I love my Computer

Answer 1

My life? Well as a freelance graphic designer (specializing in web design and presentation work) who is married to a man with a masters in Computer Science (currently working as a high level programmer) and having 2 children who are largely self educating themselves on the computer and DVD player - I would be dramatically affected.

But when you think about how computers are vital in so many ways today - from cleaning water and providing electricity, to controling street lights and how we can get and use our money, I would say each and every one of us would be dramatically affected if we had no more computers.

Of course if we never had them, we would never miss them.

Answer 2

As with any discovery or creation there is good and bad. The good of computers has been around for some time. Rapid calculations of huge amounts of data for science and medicine for example. We have entered an era where the question: "just becasue a computer can do something, should it?". The power of the computer had been trivialized and marketed as a substitute for intelligent thought. So many people are beginning to loose sight of reality, as they spend their lives viewing the world through a screen.

Answer 3

People would read books and engage in actual in-person conversations. You would have to learn how to make change from a cash register and maybe even use a pencil and simple math using only your brain to add up the purchases.

How about this: Not so very long ago, telephones had to be connected to a wall by a piece of wire. Is that weird or what?

Go to a museum and see an actual piece of carbon paper. Once upon a time before Xerox, when a writer sent samples of his work to a newspaper or magazine (remember those? wow, that was a long time ago) he would have to send a self-addressed stamped envelope and a note "please return my clippings".

People used to have an "address book" so they could write down the mailing addresses of people they knew, and --get this-- they actually wrote letters on pieces of paper and it took days and days for it to get where it was going. And even weirder, people actually wrote back.

Answer 4

Much harder at first, but we would adapt. We got this far without computers, we can do it again. However, initially, we'd be in total chaos, as practically everything know requires some form of microchip processor. Aftter solving the intial crises, however, we'd just go back to 100 years ago.

Answer 5

I have a feeling life would be harder, but we wouldn't know it because we never had computers...So I would say we would work harder probably be more educated, Math, spelling (no Calculator no spell check.) We would really have to learn more, The people would be more healthy to less sitting in front of PC

Answer 6

Well, I'd be out of a job for one thing. The 30K I spent in university to become a Software Engineer would have been wasted. That, and I wouldn't be able to play Minesweeper anymore. That would be a b*tch.

Answer 7

Remember the Alamo

Answer 8

It would be harder and it would be hell. I hate it when people think using a computer make you dumber. It makes you smarter.

Answer 9

A world without computers is like our planet without the sun.

Answer 10

we would be lost. Even basic math skills have gone out the window in the advent of computers. I think chaos would reign.