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A test for low-technology may be that it can be practiced or fabricated with a minimum of Capital investment by an individual or small group of individuals; and that the knowledge of the practice can be completely comprehended by a single individual, free from increasing Specialization and Compartmentalization .


EXAMPLES OF LOW-TECHNOLOGY


Note: almost all of the entries in this section should be prefixed by the word ''traditional''.





  • the trade of the Wainwright : making wagons. (the Latin word for a two-wheeled ''wagon'' is ''carpentum'', the maker of which was a ''carpenter''.)


(''Wright'' is the Agent Form of the word ''wrought'', which itself is the original Past Passive Participle of the word ''work'', now superseded by the Weak Verb forms ''worker'' and ''worked'' respectively.)




  • Milling in the sense of operating hand-constructed equipment with the intent to either grind grain, or the reduction of timber to lumber as practiced in a Saw-mill .






Note: Home-canning is a counter example of a '''Low-technology''' since some of the supplies needed to pursue this skill rely on a Global Trade Network and an existing manufacturing Infrastructure .

  • the production of various Alcoholic Beverage s:

  • --- Wine : not quite so well preserved fruit juice.

  • --- Beer : a way to preserve the calories of grain products from decay.

  • --- ) form of beer.





THE LEGAL STATUS OF LOW-TECHNOLOGY


  • By Federal law in the United States, only those articles produced with little or no use of machinery or tools with complex mechanisms may be stamped with the designation ''hand-wrought'' or ''hand-made''.


  • Lengthy court-battles are currently underway over the precise definition of the terms ''organic'' and ''natural'' as applied to Foodstuff s.



GROUPS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW-TECHNOLOGY



  • the corresponding Bauhaus movement of Germany around the same time.



  • the Homesteading Movement beginning in America during the 1960's, whose adherents sought to get "Back to the Land."




  • the various Living History museums around the world, which strive to recreate bygone societies.


  • the Amish and to a lesser extent some sects of the Mennonites , who specifically refuse some newer technologies to avoid deleterious effects on their societies.