Will tech really die?

[MaryN]

Very interesting, Scythe, and you have made me think a bit. I don't think "tech" will die out - you can't unlearn what you already know - but I do think it will be more difficult to use it. It depends how hard everything (or only something) falls. It would be difficult to restaff factories to make ipads and whatnot. People would probably be reluctant to join in with such projects particularly if there was a lot of uncertainty. What would they gain?

I think the thing that would be the big showstopper would be the number of people involved. Even if "tech" could be put back into operation, there would be millions (?) of people with no clue as to how to do anything remotely useable. Do you think they would willingly stand by while preppers got on with it? They would wait, steal, ruin........ What they couldn't fix for themselves they would extract from others. I doubt if there would be much discipline in the world - you think people would wait patiently for things to be made to fill their needs? They would steal; gangs would form..... well, anarchy would ensue.

And I'm usually an optimist.