The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (867 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071KQNT6B |
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| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Industrial society is trying to "progress" without bothering to ask whether any sane person would want to live in the world that progress is creating. When every upgrade has more bugs and fewer benefits than the last, and "new" no longer means "improved," it's time to challenge the mythology of progress and go back to what works.
We no longer have unlimited time and resources to deal with the crises that define our future, and the options are limited to the tools we have on hand right now.This book is about one very powerful option: deliberate technological regression.Technological regression isn't about "going back" — it's about using the past as a resource to meet the needs of the present. Clear signs among many that blind faith in progress is faltering and opening up the possibility that the best way forward may well involve going back.A must-read for anyone willing to think the unthinkable and embrace the possibilities of a retro future.. To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it's clear that things are going very, very wrong. It starts from
He is a certified Master Conserver, an organic gardener, and has been active in the alternative spirituality movement for more than 25 years. John Michael Greer is a scholar of ecological history, an award-winning author and an internationally renowned Peak Oil theorist whose blog, The Archdruid