Is society going to abandon technology and return to the ways of our ancestors?

Not very many, I'll wager. There are those who are anti-technology...Who want to live "on the land" and weave their own fabrics from sheep they've raised themselves and all that.

They are welcome to such a lifestyle and I fear they would rapidly abandon it when those niggling health concerns started popping up.

"Oh...Angina. Perhaps I'll go to the city and get an nice cardiac catheterization and a stent or two.... Then back to the farm."

Alvin Toffler, the "futurist", said in one of his books that there were essentially three kinds of people. Those who are resistant to change, those who embrace and enjoy change, and a majority who sort of cope with change...adapting what they can and ignoring the rest.

Look how quickly the cell phone has become ubiquitous, even in third-world countries. Just an amazingly useful device.

None of you people who use the terms "forward" and "advancing" and "progress" are ever able to define what you mean. In any case, sooner or later the "grid" overall will come down and at that time there will be no choice other than to "return to the ways of our ancestors." The trouble is that most people now know how to do nothing more than push buttons: Cell phones. TV remotes, keyboards, calculators, buttons in our cars, and so on. When the grid fails, those who do not know how to use "primitive" tools like picks, shovels, hammers, saws and so on will die. There is no, "unless they teach themselves to use them" because most will not. Millions are going to die and i think there are a number of people who are all too aware of this. You ask, "Who would want to live as our ancestors did?" But what we want is going to have nothing to do with it. We will either live as they did or we will die. The world population is growing by 13-and a half-million people per year. How much longer can we do that? Not much longer. And when everything "comes down" (stops working), those of us who do not know how to live as our ancestors did will die. End of discussion ...

Old people regard the world of their youth to be better. For example communism allowed to every citizen to do easy job and internet was not missing because there was a net of almost free of charge libraries.

It MIGHT be nice, but we can't have cars either, that'd be REALLY nice. I might even be ok with NO INTERNET!

As long as I'm almost constantly surrounded by people, when I'm alone I NEED Internet.

Pork used to taste better.

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I wonder if that would be so bad.