Is it possible for man to live without advanced technologies?

Question

Nowdays, there are television, computer, washing machine, water filter, gas stove and many more. If no one invent all this machines, would man still be able to live on Earth?

Answer 1

Absolutely. Homo sapiens appeared on the Earth as a distinct species around 200,000 years ago, evolving from a subpopulation of Homo erectus in Africa. At that time 'technology' was fire, and a collection of hand-shaped rock, stick and bone tools. We did so well with that that in an evolutionary blink--200,000 years out of 150 million years of mammalian evolution, just a 10th of a percent of mammalian history--we have become the most widespread, populous, and influential large animal species that has ever existed. We now absolutely dominate the Earth's ecology.
And we did all that with no technology at all, defining it by your parameters. Defining technology by its power source, electricity in your mind, such stuff has only existed for a century (which brings us up to Big Mack's reply above). The 199,850 years of Homo sapiens success that preceded the 20th century is obvious proof that we can live without such stuff.

If you are implying 'is it possible for 6.5 billion people to live without advanced technologies?', then the answer would be no, since the medical, water and agricultural technologies that, for the former, extend life, and for the latter support hugely excessive amounts of human biomass, would not exist either.

But if good health care, sanitation and agricultural production continued, while all the labor-saving, communications and transportation systems, and entertainment technologies were somehow erased, we would probably mostly continue to live.
There might be a few techno-addicts who would go drown themselves (ohmygod, I have to talk to someone face to face? or apply pen to paper? i'd rather die...) and local agricultural surpluses would need to be distributed somehow. (There would be some famine until the economy reorganized; it would take a while to bring the tall ships and wagon trains back). Overall, I'm sure we'd mostly scrape by somehow.

Answer 2

Statistics from 1910 census

100 Years ago:
The population of the US was 92,228,496
Life expectancy was only 48 years.
8% of households had indoor plumbing.
2% had electricity.
There were 3600 miles of paved roads in the US.
Nobody had even heard of Penicillin or recording music.
There were 4000 cars and 31 fatalities in car crashes.
Coca-Cola had Cocaine in it (Thus it's name...).
A trip from New York to San Francisco took 48 days, now it takes 5 hours.
"Gay" meant "Happy"
Shampoo hadn't been invented, so many women washed their hair with egg yolks about once or twice a month.
Food had no preservatives, and people home-canned food for the winter.
An average house cost $3500 to build (most people built their own homes)


50 Years ago:
The US Population was 151,325,798
Man had never been in space, but rockets were being tested.
The ball-point pen was the new "thing"
Interstates were still being argued about in the Congress, but had not been built yet.
There were120,000 cars
There were 33212 miles of paved roads
Man was flying primitive jets and jet fighters.
The life expectancy was 59.
Smallpox was on its way to being completely wiped off the face of the planet.
An average house cost $10,000, and "tract" homes were pre-made for buyers.

Today, the US Population surpassed the 300 Million mark on Oct 17th.

So, to answer your question, Yes, Man will survive. We've been here for about 4 million years or so, and have been "civilized" for about 7,000 years. We'll get by without all this technology.

The only thing I would like to keep is the medical advances that have now stretched our life expectancy to 78 for women and 72 for men.

Ooorahhh!

Answer 3

All of these machines were invented to provide a greater quality of life. People go camping all of the time. People live without these amenities in many places on the Earth today. It is possible to live without all of these ammentites. It woudl not be comfortable, but we could live without them.

Answer 4

Absolutely. We are all part of an ecosystem. We seem to be getting further away from understand how our work put's food on the table, amid the layers of society and technology. Nevertheless, take these things away and I believe people would return to being very resourceful in utilizing the natural environment around them - those area within walking range.

Answer 5

Yes man can, has and may have to again one day, less people would be killed each day by conflicts & wars due to primitive weapons.

Monks all around the world live without using modern technology day by day and they are happier and more fufilled than the majority of us who sit at the idiots box day after day.

Answer 6

Why not ? For thousands of years, man existed on this earth depending solely on God-gifted food and shelter. And they had better food, better air to breathe and healthier environment to live. If you think deeply, all these technological products are really unnecessary for a man to survive.

Answer 7

Yes, but not everyone, modern medicine is keeping lots of people alive that would otherwise be dead, and not distributed the way we are now, concentrated in urban areas. Our modern methods of transporting food, water, fuel, even shelter is what makes our population level and distribution possible.

Answer 8

Humans have lived on the Earth for a LOT longer without having any of these things than the amount of time we HAVE had them.

The question isn't "could we live without them?" -- the question is "would we want to live without them?"

Answer 9

Yes, He did in the past and in some locations still does.

Answer 10

Same thing I'm wondering