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I was thinking how I should present this; to explain the idea that "YES" we "CAN" live without computers. To show that Human life would not cease to exist, The world would not cave in and splinter into billions of pieces, we would not return to the "stone age". This idea may come as a shock to all those computer geeks and maniacs out there but I want to prove my point, "your life does not depend on a circuit or processor".

As I searched the internet for some information to back up my idea, I hit upon an article. Actually, it would be more appropriate to say - the article hit me.I figured since someone had already put my great idea into prolific wording, I should share it here with you.
This article paints for us a would-be life without computers. What interests me is that for the millions who believe it impossible to survive without them, there are some people who believe we can. These people, infintesimal in comparison, "can" imagine a world without computers and even find the benefits of going without them.

Imagining a world without computers
by Morgan Carlson

There's no need to imagine a world without computers, as that world has already defined existence of human life for everything but the latest chapter of history. Even after the use of electricity people still had communication means that could reach others in a far away country, so a world without the computer would hardly be as dramatic as people would like to think. However, if the world was without computers, would that mean other electrical appliances would be out as well? What kind of scenarios would create civilization without computers and what would people do to live?

Imagine for a moment that the newest weapon of war detonates in the upper atmosphere and causes an unexpected effect that ties in with the Earth's magnetic field and creates a cycling electromagnetic pulse that encircles the globe at a nearly set rate. While life outside the pulse would be just as it is everyday, for a moment of each twenty four hour day the wave flows across anything metal and generates a current of electrical energy that proceeds to short out anything technological. On a positive side this would equate to free energy once the right systems were equipped to deal with the excess electric production. The bad thing would be that anything that relies on circuitry would die, essentially creating a world without computers. Even worse, the surge of energy destroys not only the computer but everything that carries circuitry.

After the global destabilization that would follow from the loss of important means of health, money, manufacturing, and networking applications, people would find themselves in a different world, that of a modern day "dark age". On the good side of things technology can be restored and systems can be rebuilt as things within protective cages of metal known as Faraday cages remain unaffected by the pulse and the effects of the energy on its outside. The problem then becomes that these cages are neither cost effective nor tailored to the individual, thus ruling out the world of interconnectivity known to that point. But this would hardly be a bad thing.

In this world without computers and other technologies there would be an abundance of jobs related to the reconstruction of society that even the completely computer dependant people could help construct. Until the pulse's diminishing and the integrity of the magnetic field restored, people would benefit in the electrical abundance and boom in more sophisticated forms of machinery and transportation alike, as well as the new outdoor activities that could come about. A changed world is only despairing to those unable to change themselves, whereas those who can adapt will benefit from their new lifestyles. It is possible that people may lead healthier and less self-destructive lives separated from their technological umbilical cord, so long as they stay protected from the adverse affects of the daily pulse in their lives.

As for other scenarios where the computers are the only change, possibly negated due to the threat of an artificial collective intelligence, people would have to adapt in other ways. To say a society without technology would then be in error, as many things with circuitry and electrical systems would still be around. There may even be biological methods of interconnectivity established that would have just as great an impact. The thing is that as much as computers are loved in today's world, they don't have to be humanity's crutch. For without one's crutch, one's own two feet are far better.