The Retro Future : Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future - John Michael Greer

The Retro Future

Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future

By: John Michael Greer

Paperback | 26 November 2024

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An examination to discover a solution for the troubles of our modern age: technical regression.

To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, itâs clear that things are going very, very wrong. 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 isnât about âgoing backââ"itâs about using the past as a resource to meet the needs of the present. It starts from the recognition that older technologies generally use fewer resources and cost less than modern equivalents, and it embraces the heresy of technological choiceâ"our ability to choose or refuse the technologies pushed by corporate interests.

People are already ditching smartphones and going back to âdumb phonesâ and land lines and e-book sales are declining while printed books rebound. 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.

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