Georgia Tech
The notion of applicable technology was developed in the 20th century by thinkers corresponding to E.F. Schumacher and Jacques Ellul to describe conditions the place it was not desirable to use very new technologies or people who required entry to some centralized infrastructure or components or expertise imported from elsewhere. A more infamous anti-technological treatise is Industrial Society and Its Future, written by the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and printed in several main newspapers as a half of an effort to end his bombing marketing campaign of the techno-industrial infrastructure. There are also subcultures that disapprove of some or most technology,…Continue Reading
