[kleim]

I don't think so. Without technology any basic daily task become incredibly difficult. Try surviving a month in the wild: most of your thoughts and activity in a day would be focused toward getting food, drink, shelter...

Technology freed us from these burdens.

[antocv]

"I don't think so. Without technology any basic daily task become incredibly difficult"

Well, thats like, your opinion, man.

You ask a non-civilized person to survive in New York for a month, then lets talk again.

You are most hours of your life spending on acquiring food, drink and shelter. Its called work for a reason.

Hunters-gatherer societies spent much less time, hunting to aquire food. An activity that you cant even do today if you dont toil for a few months to save for that activity.

EDIT: btw, downvoting me for having a different opinion? thats nice.

[aaronem]

"By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy daily bread."

It's tempting, I agree, to romanticize our species' distant past, to imagine that our hunter-gatherer ancestors enjoyed what Christian mythology calls the Garden of Eden, and that, had they but not invented agriculture, with its ties to the land and its back-breaking labor, we would even today still recline in paradisaical idyll. Perhaps that's even true, although I doubt it. But the arrow of time has only one head.