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It's not that they would be dumbfounded like a caveman, it's that there would instantly be a lot of weird questions.
Why do you bother to have electricity coming out of your couch? Why is a "doorbell" on battery, those are just buttons wired to a chime? Why did you call it a doorbell if it's an intercom with camera? What do you mean you answer the doorbell using your phone? Why do you call it a phone when it's a computer that you barely use to talk on it?
Yes you could explain things and they would catch on, but the sentence would be odd, and not likely a trajectory for terminology and applications of technology they would have naturally expected.
All sorts of times I reflect on how much I'd have to explain odd sentences to even how things were 30 years ago. Like using your phone to turn off the lights.