One day it will all go away

Technology is only as good as its continued availability. Unfortunately it is heavily reliant on electricity and the Internet. Any breakdown of one or the other may likely affect technology. Apart from these, technology updates are also necessary to keep things running (Case in point: Digital books wear out faster than physical books).

Other cases in point:

• Lots of people, especially those who were social media savvy, were affected when Instagram and Whatsapp were hit by outage 
• This piece of news illustrate how a massive yet hidden infrastructure runs our Internet (and a LOT of things we do daily): Damaged European undersea cables impact internet connectivity worldwide
• When this happened, people at my office literally stopped working. No internet. No electricity to power our laptops and computers. And we had very few documents in hardcopy to do anything much: Parts of Klang Valley hit by blackout
• In the TV series "Humans" that ran from 2015-2018 on UK's Channel 4, the robots were smarter, stronger, faster and better than humans in every way YET they still need to be charged to keep running. Control the electrical supply and we (humans) can control the robots. 

For me personally, I will explore the simple life next. Rear some chickens and grow my own farm in one corner of New Zealand perhaps? Go to the towns only when I need to. Stay on my own and do my own thing, away from the grid.