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themusecalliope ([personal profile] themusecalliope) wrote2004-08-24 10:58 pm
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Hmmm...

I think I should start a Periodical called "Modern Luddite."
It would have articles about how to do things with less technology.
Yeah...but, it would be really expensive to produce, what with all of the moveable type...

:)
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How about a version of Wired for the Amish?

[identity profile] eucharistcrunch.livejournal.com 2004-08-25 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
What would it be called? Un-wired?

As for true Luddite technology you should have the piece reproduced by scribes, in cuneform, on clay tablets. Now that's anti-tech!

As to the idea of how to do things with less tech, I'm actually really interested in it. I hold to the assertion that technology makes a broad percentage of the population dumber--they get to rely on it and so they loose a part of their brain. Take me for example. Lousy speller. Always have been, probably always will be. Really lousy. Of course, part of that has to do with the fact that the English language is a fucked up combination of what amounts to Middle French and Old English/German. Seriously. I took French and then German and the origins of our language made sense. And most importantly the reason that nothing in our language is spelled the way it sounds makes sense.

So when we got our first word processor and the first spell checker I stopped caring about how things were spelled. And my spelling went to absolute shit. It only got better later, when I was studying French and German.

The point is that people become dependant upon a technology and then they get stuck. How many people trapped in the woods could actually light a fire without a lighter?
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Modern Luddite :)

[personal profile] themusecalliope 2004-08-25 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe, in order to make my pro-tech and anti-tech halves both happy, I *should* make it an online periodical.
:)
In this way, I can lure tech folks over to the anti-tech side of the force.

So, I should either get folks who can do illuminated manuscripts or use some moveable type printing press...then scan the pages in.
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Re: Modern Luddite :)

[personal profile] themusecalliope 2004-08-25 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Modernluddite.net, modernluddite.org & virtualluddite.com (this one is funny 2x) are all avail.
(snicker)
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Re: Modern Luddite :)

[identity profile] eucharistcrunch.livejournal.com 2004-08-28 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
You could also use punch cards to encode the data for a kind of cool retro-tech thing.
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