What Would a Computer-Free Future Look Like?

If computers vanished today, the world would be forced into a dramatic reset. Within the first 5 years, global systems—banking, aviation, logistics, and power—would collapse before slowly rebuilding around paper records, mechanical tools, and local communities. Daily life would feel like a modernized 1950s.

By 10 years, industries adapt with analog engineering. Factories, transportation, and trade resume on slower but stable systems. Radio, print, and mechanical devices dominate communication and media.

After 15 years, humanity innovates within its limitations, developing advanced analog machines, fluidic logic, and non-digital automation. Society becomes less globalized but more resilient.

By 20 years, a new equilibrium emerges: a sophisticated but fully analog world. Transportation thrives, medicine advances through non-digital technology, and craftsmanship flourishes. Life is slower, more tactile, and built on mechanical ingenuity—a retrofuturistic civilization shaped by creativity rather than computation.

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