re: How long would it take you to adjust to a life without today’s technology?

Actually doing math in your head
Paper maps
Better entertainment on tv and in the movies
Standard transmissions
Drive-ins with girls who came to the car and took your order (not Sonic)
Vinyl records
Music with instruments instead of computers

Pretty sure I could survive.

Easily.

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I am saying you were dropped in 1978 or something.

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I graduated high school in 1978, I was born in 1960. While it would take some adjustment, I think I could adapt pretty quickly.

When I was a kid, you ran the A/C when it was really hot, like in July and August. I still remember when I saw my first color TV.

It's the kids in junior high, high school and college right now who would really have the hardest time adapting.

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I hear what all of you are saying, however I wonder if you would actually get frustrated with some things.

Shopping for instance would take much more time with a limited selection. Just one example

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I lived in that time. I still know how to read a map, balance a checkbook (and write a check), dial a telephone (and use a pay phone). I know how to push start a manual transmission (and drive one). I remember having 13 channels on cable, plus the "box" for movies. I remember movies being in the theater for over a year and that was the only place you could see them until they came on TV YEARS later. I have typed papers on an IBM Selectric typewriter.

Would it be less convenient than now? Absolutely. But the question is how long to adjust, and I could do it rather quickly.

I’d live like a king because I would have some pretty sweet technology I could introduce to the world.

Over a year. With great difficulty.

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Very much so. We would all be writing and mailing memos and waiting for a response.

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I the 70s we just made a phone call to resolve a issue, today we trade Emails all day maybe all week over minor things.

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It wasn't like access to information was shut down, but it did require a trip to the library and everyone knew how to use a card catalog.

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I had a extensive home library, I was constantly searching bookstores and adding to it, really miss that aspect. I rarely needed to go to a library for research purposes, just to check out new fiction.

It would be very easy. I know what it’s like to live without it.

It would be nice to go back to when it was essy to go off the grid but it would take time to get use to not having info at your fingertips. I'd miss youtube and thst rabbit hole.