The premise in Survivor is something that I never forgot. The fact that we are all technical specialists. Few, very few, of us know all the processes that go into making something, anything that exists in the time period in which we live. We are all specialists and none of us are generalists. Not even the Amish. Indigenous tribes are probably the only people close enough to being generalists and even then they also have specialists like a medicine man/woman.

If we were hit with an EMP or a pandemic virus very few of us would survive because most of us no longer know how to do the most basic things such as the rudimentary farming. Only those who have been trained in the art of living off the land would be able to eek out a meager existence.

Most people are not able to tell you the processes from start to finish of how to make a loaf of bread. The farmer could tell you the processes of how to grow the grain. A miller would be able to tell you the processes of how to grind the grain into flour, provided that we had electricity, but we don't. So you need someone who can tell you how it's done with a wind or water mill. The baker could tell you how to make dough from the flour and how to bake the bread provided that you had a kiln.

In this scenario, there are many ancient technologies and tools missing because I myself do not possess the basic knowledge to make a loaf of bread.

This argument stands as my proof that food is a technology.