Michael Perelman wrote:
The Wall Street Journal article does not say that the grinder represented particularly modern technology; nor was it a commercial product. I think most people would regarded as an example of appropriate technology.
Don't you find something a touch patronizing about the notion of "appropriate technology"? Should it end there? Should they want farm equipment too? A TV? Or will that corrupt their prelapsarian innocence?
Doug
- [PEN-L:28621] Re: Drudgery, (continued)
- [PEN-L:28621] Re: Drudgery, joanna bujes Fri 26 Jul 2002, 22:34 GMT
- [PEN-L:28624] Re: Re: Drudgery, Michael Perelman Fri 26 Jul 2002, 22:41 GMT
- [PEN-L:28668] Re: Re: Re: Drudgery, Doug Henwood Sat 27 Jul 2002, 17:33 GMT
- [PEN-L:28681] Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery, Michael Perelman Sat 27 Jul 2002, 19:22 GMT
- [PEN-L:28685] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery, Doug Henwood Sat 27 Jul 2002, 20:20 GMT
- [PEN-L:28686] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery, Michael Perelman Sat 27 Jul 2002, 20:38 GMT
- [PEN-L:28719] Re: Re: Re: Re: Drudgery, joanna bujes Sun 28 Jul 2002, 21:08 GMT
- [PEN-L:28625] Re: Re: Drudgery, Gil Skillman Fri 26 Jul 2002, 22:52 GMT
- [PEN-L:28626] Re: Re: Drudgery, Ian Murray Fri 26 Jul 2002, 22:59 GMT