What will the post-technological world look like for humanity?

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I made a friend twitch by asking him what the post-technological world would be like. So, wide-open question: What comes after technology for the human race? Sociological implications? Psychological implications? Will we be Markovians? Angels? House plants?
 

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There is a minimal wiki article on "Post Tech"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tech

There is no reason to believe that technology itself will ever be entirely history - unless we are too.
Would there be wheels and fire in a post-technology era?
Since some apes have learned to use tools on their own, are we sure that humans ever existed in a pre-technology era?
 
So there's never going to be time when technology has been supplanted by a more advanced system?
 
Noisy Rhysling said:
So there's never going to be time when technology has been supplanted by a more advanced system?
What "more advanced system" would not be "more advanced technology"?
By definition, technology is "the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry". Given that definition, the only way "past" it would be to have all "practical purposes" addressed without scientific knowledge. How would that work? Or perhaps to eliminate all practical purposes (while still having humanity). How would that work?