I often wonder what it would be like to start our technology over. Would we eventually catch up to where we are now? Or would we take our advancements in completely different directions? Would we invent the computer or bypass it entirely and invent the seemingly next most useful machine? How long would it take us to catch back up if we weren’t slowed down like we have been in the past by religious insanities and assumptions without evidence? Galileo Galilei was set back for years by the Catholic Church when he presented his model of the heliocentric Solar System, simply because it did not coincide with what the Bible told us.
First of all, how would we start over? Would we be ignorant of the possibilities or know full well that things such as computers or artificial satellites are possibilities? Would everything simply vanish overnight? Would we be forced by extra-terrestrial tyrannical invaders that want to study our learning and adapting behaviors so they destroy all of our technology?
I wonder what our first priority would be if we had to start over. Clothing is, after all, technology. If we lost all technology but retained sensibility and humility, I feel like people would like to have clothing available to them. That begs another question: would it be survival of the fittest? Would we have to kill our own animals in order to create clothing? Or would a single person or group be determined to provide the clothing for the community. I believe it would be an all out war for survival. Humanity getting back to its animalistic roots.
People won’t be able to dial their sacred three numbers for help, they’ll have to help themselves, and this will bring fear. Fear will bring irrational thinking. Irrational thinking will bring destruction and may ultimately destroy us as a species.
I feel lazy. I did not contribute to these advances in technology. If it wasn’t for scientists tediously working for centuries before my birth, I’d be living in a cave, battling with the creation of fire. I feel lazy because I have nothing to contribute. If I am cold, there is technology available that someone other than myself has created to keep me warm. If I am in pain, there are medicines that others have developed for me to help. I guess that I can contribute by teaching what little I’ve learned. I’ll try that out.