Retro Future

The author of The Long Descent examines 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, it''s 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 isn''t about "going back"—it''s 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 choice—our ability to choose or refuse the technologies pushed by corporate interests.People are already ditching smartphones and going back to "dumb phones" and land lines and e-book