amish hackers

[jrtom]

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/amish_hackers_a.php

In which it is revealed that the Amish attitudes towards technology are considerably more complex and varied than I'd been aware of.

(The whole pneumatic technology thing almost-but-not-quite gives a whole new meaning to "steampunk". :))

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[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I knew that there are different sects and subgroups with different constraints. What I was surprised by from this article was (a) the nature of their process for deciding which technology to adopt and (b) the extent to which they've used pneumatic technology as an end-run around the lack of electricity.