It's A Technologically Advanced World After All

How would uncivilized cultures react upon receiving technology beyond their comprehension?

In all honesty, the uncivilized people would probably:
a) Approach carefully and give the "technology" (i.e. cellphone, laptop, etc.) a cautious poke
b) Destroy the "technology"
c) Run away in fear
d) All of the above

What would you do if one day you were given a new piece of technology that was so powerful and so different from what this world is used to that you didn't understand it? If you found out that that technology could be used for the benefit of someone or something, would you keep it? Probably so. Would you try to find out ways to further that technology? Of course.

This is how it would most likely be with "uncivilized people," as well. Let's use an example of a cell phone to further illustrate what it would be like for these people.

At first, they'd be extremely cautious around the phone. The first few times it rang, they would most likely run off in fear. Once they were assured that the phone would not harm them, it would take a long time to just train one of them to be able to use it. This is true not only for "uncivilized" people, but for people like us, as well. If you told an ordinary person to program a satellite to orbit the Earth, take pictures of space, and send these pictures back to a computer on Earth, the person most likely would not be able to do so. It's the same situation in trying to train a "barbaric" person to use a phone, although maybe it wouldn't be as difficult as teaching someone to program a satellite.

The next step would be to integrate the phone into their society. This, of course, would take a rather long time, because it would then be the job of the person who can use the phone to teach everyone else to use the phone. A rather arduous process, it might take weeks, months, or maybe even years to be able to fully integrate something so technologically advanced into an almost backwards society. Once the integration is done, though, everything speeds up from there.

It would be a whirlwind, really. They'd get swept up in the technology craze just like us, and soon, they'd be taking part in the race, too. The race to make the fastest, smallest, most ingenious piece of technology out there.

Unfortunately, that race will never end.