finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

[pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social]

@loriemerson I love the idea of the body's energy being solar energy

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@loriemerson Yes 100% to all of this. Though I'm not entirely sure what they mean by "some form of solar energy" in that context... it sounds like they mean generally renewable or naturally abundant in the local environment?

[zenheathen@beige.party]

@loriemerson Based on this brilliant wisdom, I should look this person up.

[kolev@babka.social]

@loriemerson I'd like to see some examples of good and bad tech based on these principles. I assume a solar-powered calculator is a good tech.

[radicalabacus@hachyderm.io]

@earthshine @loriemerson I think they mean it quite literally. The energy in us comes from our food, which gets it from the sun. Wind energy is also from the sun since it's the heat differences that drive the wind. If you take that idea to extremes fossil fuels are also solar but I don't think that's what they meant

[publius@mastodon.sdf.org]

@loriemerson

How far back do you have to go, to find a time when many people would have agreed that slavery fell in the category of "family and community relationships", and was even among the most important? Technological innovation disrupted that, by separating the processing of chemical energy into mechanical work from the human body. I for one have no desire to go back.

#atomicpowertothepeople

[stairjoke@indieweb.social]

@loriemerson wonderful! Is there a website with more information and some context? Or a book?

[zombiecide@polyglot.city]

@AH_99 e-SUVs are out, e-bikes very much in

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@publius Slavery was recognized at the time it was practiced as an abomination by all decent people.

History classes just teach the awful people of their times as though they were the only ones whose opinions counted.

[admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com]

@earthshine @loriemerson Yeah, powered by burning wood or vegetation, or a combustion engine running pure ethanol..maybe even incinerating mountains of bioplastics...

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@loriemerson This is a great list!!

[dogfox@kpop.social]

Wendell Berry rocks.

@ai6yr @loriemerson

[libroraptor@mastodon.nz]

@loriemerson I'm not keen on rule 2: often the current tool's problems include being too small to operate well.

[alexandermars@mastodon.social]

@dalias that's just a sad little troll, making a pathetic attempt to shit on someone else's post.

[isocat@tiggi.es]

@loriemerson Nothing about durability. Point 6 only gets partway there.

[isocat@tiggi.es]

@libroraptor @loriemerson Yeah, smaller isn't necessarily better.

[itsjennotgoblin@goblin.camp]

@aakoskin @loriemerson the text is in the image description you numpty.

[nicksilkey@hachyderm.io]

@loriemerson amazing - I tracked down the source. Thanks for this! ‍️️

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
Wendell Berry
New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly
Vol. 10, No. 1 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 112-113 (2 pages)
Published By: Middlebury College Publications

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[scottytrees@mastodon.social]

@loriemerson yeah that’s a fantasy list that doesn’t exist anymore lol

[perhaps391@mastodon.social]

@loriemerson wow, current vibe-coded software tools fail almost every one of these standards.