What if all technology was wiped out?

No power,no fuel,no food. How long before anarchy prevails?

Other than people not being able to post crap on social media, we’d be grand.

Its only 50 years ago when there was virtually no technology.

They managed.

You wouldn't be able to do anything.

Life would get very boring and depressing very fast.

Can't produce food without power or fuel.

When hunger hits it's the law of the jungle.

Go round to the local survavilists cellar, kill them and steal all their kit

Food supply would be a major challenge…. Maybe THE major challenge…no refrigeration next to no transportation, next to no production..

no safe fuel storage ( needs to be temperature controlled ) couldn’t produce it either

no international or domestic air travel…. impossible to maintain aircraft, fuel aircraft, no ATC…

no healthcare…can’t operate in the dark, anaesthetics would run out….can’t monitor vitals, can’t perform scans / tests with no power…can’t run ventilators, perform blood transfusions etc…chemotherapy …

no entertainment… no tv, ps5, spotify, Netflix, iPads….

candles would be important be expensive…

id say anarchy personally…

A lot of theft, violence, breaking and entering….

army would need to become full time law enforcement…

Go back to cutting turf and growing spuds and grass . A couple of bullocks in the freezer and you’re set

We need to stock up on post it notes and agree a place to go if boards goes down. We can write out post it notes and put them in sequential order on a lamppost or something. Mike and odhran can put in a sticker every now and then to keep the advertising going, and if someone writes something good you can just say thanks to them In person

I mean you can produce food it would just require a lot of manual labour. We would have lots of excess labour as all of the data analysts, programmers and consultants would be out of a job.

There would be a short, sharp shock where people would need to readjust their expectations and understand their value but I've no doubt we would find a way. As a species we have survived war, famines etc etc in the past without collapsing into chaos, there's no reason why society would just collapse under itself in these enlightened times

Twould probably be the time for me to bow out. The thoughts of having to socialise with people again... nah.

We've had electricity for over 100 years at this stage and our entire economy is built on having access to cheap fuel and electricity. Think of the panic we had when COVID hit and people cleaned the shelves of toilet paper, milk and bread.

If electrical grids failed and we couldn't get them back, I'd say most of the country would die in 5 years and the rest would be back to the middle ages for the next 50.

Reduced output and smaller farms means we'd have the same chaos as everywhere else, we won't be self-sufficient for food without modern technology.

Your pints would be warm.

I don't see it.

If a solar storm killed everything, then there's hardly a car or truck in the country that would start, and hardly a week of petrol or diesel to keep things moving.

If you needed a part for a machine, how would you know who to call, how would you call them, and how would your part get delivered?

How would you equip people with the tools, land, seed potatoes, and the farming know-how to plant food?

How do you keep people fed while you're waiting six months for food to grow?

Honestly, society would get maybe a week's grace, then fall apart.

With solar flares we could become holiday destination for the Northern Lights

All shops would be looted and destroyed in a few days. Food would quickly run out so growing more food would be way too slow.

If we (globally) had to start from scratch then I think the world would lose 10% of population every 6 weeks. Would lose about 90%of first world population in a year. I don't think we will be all wearing studded leather within a year or Tina Turner would rule the world (RIP Aunty Enity) but I do believe it would be the end of civilisation as we know it. It's not just De Internet. All communication would die. From international to two doors down.

Could ireland become self sufficient? Possibly. But how do we scale up food production? Distribute food? How is it funded? Who grows it? How does an IT manager or HR consultant contribute to that world?

Ironically I believe that poorer, agri-based countries would have the best opportunity to survive.

I think if everything more advanced than a 1950's crystal radio died it would take the world 100 years to even begin to recover. To get to a turning point where things START to recover. After that, another 100 years to get back to 1970's tech buy with a MASSIVELY reduced global population... that is aiming that nuclear power plants just dying melt down within 12 hours.

Fun

Where and how you live would be the biggest factor in your survival I think. Middle of a tower block in a built up area? You're fucked. On a few acres in the arse end of nowhere? You'll probably be fine.

We live on the coast with fields behind the house so I think we'd survive okay... we have a modest garden, probably about 2 weeks of food in the house (although you'd end up eating fairly odd meals based on what'd spoil fastest), we also have a couple of kayaks and fishing rods so we'd be able to fish, grow some spuds & veg, forage for seaweed, berries etc. (I do that already to make blackberry wine every other autumn) . The house is over a hundred years old so, while I might have to unblock the previously bricked up fireplaces, it'd be easy enough to convert the house back to being liveable without central heating.

It's a thought experiment I like to think about regularly tbh. As per most of the post-apocalyptic fiction (zombie movies etc.), other people would be the greatest threat. I believe that if left to our own devices, we could survive pretty well, even better if the neighbours formed a co-op to bring some of the old land around us back into farming use (it was last farmed over 70 years ago and has been let go wild since).

For those interested in the topic, I'd recommend getting a copy of this (better a physical copy than one on Kindle in this scenario though ;) )

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-How-Rebuild-World-Scratch/dp/1847922279

Sure, go ahead and pick those 20 acres of beets by yourself without the machine. Or weed the crops without the Glyphosate sprayer. Or milk 50 cows by hand, twice a day. Or deliver the milk even to the local village without a car. Or sleep at all with sheep being stolen from the hills. The best bet is to get city refugees in and show them how to work.

🤣 rather presumptuous! Fair enough, if that's what you think I'll be waiting.