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That looks rather primitive. I wonder whether the difference between low-tech and high-tech isn’t simply an aesthetic one. If the designs were adapted so that they no longer looked as they’d been designed by an anarcho-primitivist, would we still regard them as low-tech at all?


" I wonder whether the difference between low-tech and high-tech isn’t simply an aesthetic one."

It is not about aesthetics but functionality achieved with cheap avaiable material. That looks seldom beautiful.




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