let's say in a hypothetically world, humans could survive without any food and water etc. where would the technology be today? stone age or much much more advance?

Your question is so far reaching that it's impossible to say. I can say that we wouldn't have developed technology at all, because the first technologies developed were to help get food. I could also say that we would develop technologies much faster after we had got the ball rolling because we wouldn't have to spend our time hunting and gathering for food. We also wouldn't have to tend crops and such. We would have much more free time and maybe could have spent that time developing technology. It also depends on if you're talking about modern humans or those that are lower down the evolutionary chain.

i think a easier to relate to hypothetical is "what if humans didn't need to sleep?"

yours is just too far out there to base conclusions on since food impacts everything in life.

If it were all animals on the planet, it would become over pouplated very quickly since our entire system since life began has been dependant on competition between organisms to feed and multiply.
Thats what has caused our evolutionary chain to take off and have such diverse life now

Interesting question tho lol

exactly this

i think we would be very far ahed,

i mean who point of teh was to get food, but we could farm and have mass food all the time our only thoughts were how to get food and more of it, but once we got to the point were food was easily accessibly and we had it in abundance we were able to start thinking about other stuff like math, science, art. we were able to ask ourselves new questions and such.

i mean we would still need shelter and other things to survive so our brains would still be stimulated to think and be innovated, we just could of began to ask our selves other question not food related much earlier and thus started scientif study / questions earlier like making a calendar or tracking the stars

I think Maslow's hierarchy of needs would apply here, but I believe that is only applicable in sparse circumstances and it is not completely accurate; a mere guideline. The notion of the starving artist is an example of where Maslow's hierarchy doesn't apply.

This post was edited by AEtheric on Dec 23 2010 08:35pm

unfortunatly we have absolutly no frame of reference to be able to even do that
If we didnt need food, there are so many things that could happen as a result, we could be here for years trying to list out different possibilities

come back to GC, we miss you.

We'd all probably be dead. An army wouldnt have to wait on their supply line, then.