harry potter - Outside Hogwarts, wouldn't it have been beneficial to use Muggle-technology as well as Magic?
Yes Muggle-techonology doesn't work at Hogwarts, but outside the castle, it sure would have helped Potter, Ron and Hermione at many instances, isn't it? Well,
Using the telephone to call Ron when he left for Bill and Fleur's? Using the internet to look up the daily news, search about Horcruxes? Using satellite TV to broadcast Potterwatch? Using mobile phone to text, tweet updates among the anti-Voldemort movement? Using motion sensors, motion alarms to help detect movements around the tent at night?
And so on.
Answer
Wizards:
Don't KNOW how to use even the most basic Muggle technology. Even the supposed expert (Mr Weasley) didn't know how to use the phone.
Don't - as a rule - have ACCESS to Muggle technology (or for that matter, Muggle money to buy it). Hermione may be different here.
Treat Muggle technology with complete disdain as 100% inferior to magic. Remember, they are mentally almost completely stuck in pre-1800s century.
Example - they think that Wizarding moving photos are all that and Muggle still photos are lamez. Apparently nobody graduated to LCD displaying a short video off a flash card. etc...).
And yeah, if you think about it logically, main reason is out-of-universe - the entire premise of the books will be broken if you introduce guns, satphones, flashbang grenades, Arduino-based custom built sensor setups and UAVs with smart bombs.
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