What if suddenly, all the technology that we use from our phones, to our iPods, to cars just stopped working? I recently started to think about this after watching a preview for a new show on NBC called “Revolution.”

In this show, everything that uses electricity just stops working and the people have to resort to old ways of living to survive in a new world without technology. If this scenario were to happen now the world would go into pandemonium. Governments would fall because of the lack of communication with their people. Petty crimes would increase when we start to run out of resources like food and clean water and especially our way of communication through phones and the internet would be gone.

This is a paradox because the technology that we use to today has made us disconnected with each other even though its purpose is to bring people closer together. When you are texting or calling people, you do not see their face and you do not get that really close connection that you would get from having intimate conversation.

For my generation, we are so hooked on technology most of us would not be able to handle living in this no-technology world. Some of us are so attached to our cell phones, computers and iPods that we start to freak out within seconds after being apart from our precious items. We are terrified that we would have to resort to what some would call an “actual” conversation, or face-to-face communication. In fact, NPR commentators Robert Siegal and Melissa Block profile a new trend in the bed and breakfast industry, “Tech-Free Escapes” where weekend getaways are advertised for their lack of signal. People who stay at these inns turn in their electronic gadgets at the desk. Rooms don’t have televisions, either. Will we get to a point in society where the default condition is plugged in and one has to pay a premium to be free from satellite connections off the grid?

We shouldn’t be so dependent on technology for our everyday things. I think we should at least try different ways to do our daily activities that won’t be so heavily dependent on electronic devices. As we become more reliant on technology, it would be harder to deal with a world without it.