>One further question. Would the scientific knowledge and technological skill
>necessary to build new computers still be there, but people would stoically
>refuse to use them? Or would the knowledge and skill themselves disappear?
Well, you might need bookstores or libraries or databases - all of which would require - ewwww - institutions. And to read them, you'd need schools - ewwwww again. But we'd all be so unalienated we'd forget to miss them!
Doug