It’s never been easier. You click on your computer, digits fly around, and the stuff arrives in a brown truck 3 days later.
If the grid goes down, we’ll be telling that “olden days fairy tale” to kids around open camp fires, and they won’t believe us, while gnawing on bones.
I fear this nation has been losing its key technical knowledge. Our schools fail to teach and people are more ignorant of the world around them than ever. The Internet only solved the issue of knowledge for those that seek it, but it makes KOOKs out of the rest (Keepers of Odd Knowledge). We are regressing in our knowledge. I suspect those that survive will primarily be the 45+ crowd that have skills and experience and not just google-foo to look up technically correct (sometimes) but useless information.
Most people couldn’t start a fire if standing naked in the woods