Technology is not a necessity

Snoopy - People always die for the lack of something.
Therefore were your definition of "necessity" valid, we never have the necessities we all need.

A necessity would be that which allowed the ENTIRE human race to survive, not just a few. In any individual case, a necessity is that which allows oneself to survive. If a lack of agricultural technology lead to your starvation, that agricultural technology constituted a necessity.

The human race would change as we know it bringing us down to the level of most apes, and our population would decline to the point where it would be negligible.

If some of the human race can survive... it is clearly not a necessity.

Odd, my internet went down after I typed that:
to finish:
but I do need at least SOME minimal technology to sterilize my food and hunt and build shelter with.

What we have here is a failure to define technology.
If I pick up a rock and use it as an axe or knife, is that technology?
As a survivalist I can tell you that my bare minimum would be at least a sharp rock or stick. A cooking fire would be important for sanitation of food and water. So I may not need modern technology like computers

In this context, "necessary" means "a prerequisite to human survival." Technology is a very broad term that refers to pretty much anything beyond using rocks to beat stuff to a pulp. This being the case, technology is, to a certain extent, necessary. The population of the world couldn't possibly be fed without agricultural technology, therefore one must say that technology is necessity.