A world without technology

[Drake the Dragonheart]

This is why I am glad I will be learning wilderness survival skills in either the search and rescue, or as a BLM firefighter, assuming of course I can get out of the way of the mobs, riots, and just general chaos and stupidity that would immediately ensue in time.
They would come in quite handy in such a situation. I have always wanted to have a home in the wilderness anyways.

Since fallout related responses seem to be popular on this thread, I will start a new town predicated on the worship of an unexploded atomic bomb.

 

[Makhiel]

Well, you can't get rid of electricity and fried-up electronics can be replaced. But if something happened and world-wide riots were to occur (though, again, a flare would have to have some power to affect the other side of the planet) I wouldn't probably last long. Densely populated area and all that.

 

[ActionDan]

Suddenly the world becomes a better place.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

What no, technology?!? What will I do without my precious technology?!? Noooooooo-

Wait, hold on... there I just put a rock on stick. TECHNOLOGY!

*Puts on red robe* +++All glory to the Omnissiah!+++

 

[Jedoro]

Grab a gun and defend my house while the riots went on. Once things calmed down, due to the government calming everyone down or killing the rioters, I'd go out and analyze the situation. If running water got cut off, I'd go out to the river that's pretty close and bring along my survival calorie bars. I've got enough to last about four months, plus any nonperishables sitting around in the cabinets.

 

[rockingnic]

The Framing:
A massive solar flare has just rocked the planet, acting as a powerful EMP that has caused a worldwide system crash with no chance of reboot.
The Challenge:
Using your wits (or lack of) how would you go about living in a world without technology, ridden with mutants of depraved technology [http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/y2kreatures/] and other such catastrophes?

How does an EMP disable bicycles, trains, guns (at least most of them), anything that's considered technology and doesn't rely on electricity? And besides if that does happen, I'm sure someone could make or remake a generator, restoring power over time.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

It would be just like MineCraft...
Without redstone...
And more people...

 

[Nouw]

Start the Brotherhood of Steel.

I'd join this guy.

Same here. It's the best bet on surviving!

The Framing:
A massive solar flare has just rocked the planet, acting as a powerful EMP that has caused a worldwide system crash with no chance of reboot.
The Challenge:
Using your wits (or lack of) how would you go about living in a world without technology, ridden with mutants of depraved technology [http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/y2kreatures/] and other such catastrophes?

How does an EMP disable bicycles, trains, guns (at least most of them), anything that's considered technology and doesn't rely on electricity? And besides if that does happen, I'm sure someone could make or remake a generator, restoring power over time.

Would Clothes count as technology?

 

[Sonicron]

In the immortal words of Daffy Duck: "I demand that you shoot me now."

 

[rockingnic]

Start the Brotherhood of Steel.

I'd join this guy.

Same here. It's the best bet on surviving!

The Framing:
A massive solar flare has just rocked the planet, acting as a powerful EMP that has caused a worldwide system crash with no chance of reboot.
The Challenge:
Using your wits (or lack of) how would you go about living in a world without technology, ridden with mutants of depraved technology [http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/y2kreatures/] and other such catastrophes?

How does an EMP disable bicycles, trains, guns (at least most of them), anything that's considered technology and doesn't rely on electricity? And besides if that does happen, I'm sure someone could make or remake a generator, restoring power over time.

Would Clothes count as technology?

Clothes are a product of technology, whether it's produced by machines or by hand using techniques and more basic technology like needles, so no.

 

[SpaceSpork]

See, I always have the same problem when people bring up technology. What exactly do you mean by that? Technology could mean anything from the wheel to giant mutant robots. Where do simple inventions stop and technology begin?

 

[sycoesis]

guns check
knives check
food check
water check
secret emp shielded bunker hidden under my house...... i need a shovel

 

[DefunctTheory]

I have guns.

BIG Guns.

I'll be okay.

Willing to kill people to get your basic supplies?

Close enough to farmland to have any supplies to steal?

Figured out what to do when the farms run out of product because they depend on technology to run and even the farms are no longer self sustaining.

Yeah...guns won't win you life for long...

Self Defense - Check

Method of killing animals for food - Check

Method of gathering people around me (For protection, not through force) to start a tech free town - Check

Thing to shoot randomly into the sky when drunk off moon shine - Check.

 

[Thespian]

I would sit there, grumpily hitting "F5" until my screen refreshed and the SWTOR site updated until the ravenous hordes came and killed me whilst I watched an Abridged Series that didn't exist and avoided friends on a transparent facebook.

 

[Daverson]

First things first: Cannibalism. I just want to get it out of the way really. I mean, once I've got a good idea of what it tastes like, I'll probably stop. Unless it's really good, in which case, I won't. But I digress.

Once the pleasantries are out of the way (punching people I don't like, some quick looting, maybe getting myself a posse or something), I'd have to high-tail it out of there! It's a well known fact that as soon as there's a slight wiff the apocalypse, zombies start showing up everywhere. Now, I can't ride a horse, and I'm pretty shit with a bicycle, presuming most cars won't start (emp = battery fried), I'd be walking, not much of a problem really. My first stop would be to find some kind of firearm, assuming I don't have one already, hell, even if I do have one already. You can never have too many guns. I'd find a suitable place to hide. (probably the air-ducts of some warehouse... I do enjoy a good air duct... oh yes...)

This shall be my new base of operations, from here, I shall slowly scavenge gubbins, and build a generator from spare parts and know-wots. Once it is complete, I shall sell electricity for gold, diamonds, pigs and... ahem... "other commodities".

On a side note, if anyone else does know how to build a generator out of scrap, you need to let me know, so I can kill you. Nothing personal, but I can't exactly have every Tom, Dick and Harry trying to steal my monopoly, can I?

 

[Numachuka]

What no, technology?!? What will I do without my precious technology?!? Noooooooo-

Wait, hold on... there I just put a rock on stick. TECHNOLOGY!

*Puts on red robe* +++All glory to the Omnissiah!+++

THE KING. HE HAS TECHNOLOGY.

*bows*

 

[Eumersian]

First of all, practically anything is technology.

An atlatl is technology, despite its simplicity. And practically anybody could make one, given enough time and enough rocks/sticks.

But I know what you mean. You mean electronics. How would I live without electronics?

I'll say I would do fairly well, since there are always ways to make effective tools without technology. I could even make a musket or something.

I'll learn to live. Us non-mutants will be able to live, as long as we have a decent local militia.

 

[Brawndo]

50+% of us would starve to death. The Earth is beyond its carrying capacity for humans as it is, and without technologically advanced farming, distribution, and production techniques, the land itself (using 19th century agrarian tech) cannot possibly support 7 billion people.