Mate, 50 years wasn't that long ago. We had computers and everything else we have now. We still did a lot of things fundamentally the same way. Everything was just slower and smaller (in scale; not physically)
I think you also should realize much of the world continues on without bleeding-edge technology - homes are still built, crops are still harvested, and the world goes on.
It would be chaos at first, but if it's at all physically survivable our species likely will, then we're only a few years away from a "humans exist, but most their knowledge has been lost". Only a few more years later before no human alive has ever interacted with a CPU using device, then the whole notion of a CPU kind of disappears before too long.
We've had this happen before of course. There's a ton of things ancient civilizations were doing that we are clueless about. So clueless, that one of the leading theories is that they must have been aided by aliens.
Clueless? Bullshit and Amerigo-centrist crap from the far right. Non White -WASP- people were doing trigonometry far earlier than the Germanic ones, which were living in huts. Just have a look at Greece and Rome.
Also, the Chinese knew basic Algebra too.
I mean, the chips they're talking abt didn't exist until like 40 years ago I think we could manage.
But tbh I don't see it as at all likely short of something like nuclear war that would be the much bigger problem.
Do we really still have the society wide institutional knowledge to do things how they were done 50 years ago? I wouldn't be so sure.
Mate, 50 years wasn't that long ago. We had computers and everything else we have now. We still did a lot of things fundamentally the same way. Everything was just slower and smaller (in scale; not physically)
I think you also should realize much of the world continues on without bleeding-edge technology - homes are still built, crops are still harvested, and the world goes on.
I don't think this is likely, but say we, the whole world, goes back to using telephones and writing paperwork on paper.
I don't think it'd be the end of life as we know it.
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It would be chaos at first, but if it's at all physically survivable our species likely will, then we're only a few years away from a "humans exist, but most their knowledge has been lost". Only a few more years later before no human alive has ever interacted with a CPU using device, then the whole notion of a CPU kind of disappears before too long.
We've had this happen before of course. There's a ton of things ancient civilizations were doing that we are clueless about. So clueless, that one of the leading theories is that they must have been aided by aliens.
Clueless? Bullshit and Amerigo-centrist crap from the far right. Non White -WASP- people were doing trigonometry far earlier than the Germanic ones, which were living in huts. Just have a look at Greece and Rome. Also, the Chinese knew basic Algebra too.
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