Living a life that is isolated from all other humans would be terribly difficult. No telephone, TV, email, or communication digitally would alone be very different to me as my life is almost centered around electronics. I talk with my parents and friends through the phone. I email my teachers about questions I have on an assignment. I call my father when he is away on a business trip. No electronic communication would be a very tough thing to get used to, but I could eventually get used to it.
The thing I could not get used to, no matter how much I try, would be no communication with other people at all. Companionship is not just something that I want and need in my life, rather it is something that everyone needs. There are TV shows about people who try to survive on their own in the wilderness for as long as they can, and they all have the same result. The survivor can usually get a source of water, start a fire, have some food, and sleep in some shelter. The part that no one can overcome is the fact that they have no one to talk to. Interaction is a human necessity and if I were unable to have this, I would go insane.
The effects of living in isolation would be hard to predict, although there are running themes in cases where people are isolated. I would probably go insane without talking to someone else for a long time; I might even hallucinate conversations with imaginary people. Personally, I think that I would reach a point where I could not take it anymore, and would leave to find other people by any means necessary. I do not think that isolation would work out very long for me.
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