A rant approximating the content of this document was delivered to an audience of new media artists and activists by James Wallbank, Coordinator of Redundant Technology Initiative, at The Next 5 Minutes conference in Amsterdam, March #1999 .
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' "Lowtech" means technology that is cheap or free.
Technology moves on so fast that right now we can recover low-end Pentiums and fast Macintoshes from the trash. Lowtech upgrades every year. But we don't have to pay for it.
Lowtech includes hardware and software. We advocate freeware and low cost software. We particularly advocate the use of low cost, open source operating systems.
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Lowtech counters exclusivity. Lowtech is street level technology.
Text is great for communicating. Write down what you want to say. Make it clear and simple and non-exclusive.
Email is still the "killer app". Fast, low cost global communication for the ordinary citizen is genuinely something new.
HTML is good for lots more than web pages. Now you can author all sorts of graphical stuff with a plain text editor.
Use the web for plain text and images. It's simple and cheap and quick and it works.'
Annuaires et webrings
Inspirations LowTech Magasine <3
#ascii_art #cli_bash style in the #www
Low-tech Magazine questions the belief in technological progress, and highlights the potential of past knowledge and technologies for designing a sustainable society. Because a web redesign was long overdue — and because we try to practice what we preach — we decided to build a low-tech website that meets our needs and abides by our principles. #2020
Articles :
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
- How and why I stopped buying new laptops
- How to Make Biomass Energy Sustainable Again
- The Solar Powered Website in Spanish, French, and Other Languages
- How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again
- Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security
- How Circular is the Circular Economy?
@viaa Olia webring inpired
- Is a situated technology. She has a sense of context and considers herself to be part of an ecology of practices
- Is run for and by a community that cares enough for her in order to make her exist
- Builds on the materiality of software, hardware and the bodies gathered around it
- Opens herself to expose processes, tools, sources, habits, patterns
- Does not strive for seamlessness. Talk of transparency too often signals that something is being made invisible
- Avoids efficiency, ease-of-use, scalability and immediacy because they can be traps
- Knows that networking is actually an awkward, promiscuous and parasitic practice
- Is autonomous in the sense that she decides for her own dependencies
- Radically questions the conditions for serving and service; experiments with changing client-server relations where she can
- Treats network technology as part of a social reality
- Wants networks to be mutable and read-write accessible
- Does not confuse safety with security
- Takes the risk of exposing her insecurity
- Tries hard not to apologize when she is sometimes not available
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@viaa https://homebrewserver.club
@viaa http://radical-openness.org/en
@Evgeny Morozov, #2015
( par Culture Mobile )
Centralisé par un groupe d'acteurs
Internet est pensé comme l'intermédiaire de tout
Tous les maux lui incombent
Le #solutionnisme induit des solutions techniques par elle-même
Une possible correction des problèmes par et pour la technique #fork
via https://www.are.na/block/989331
via https://anthology.rhizome.org/simple-net-art-diagram :
( MTAA, Simple Net Art Diagram, ca. 1997. Animated GIF. )
Internet
Body_corps
Earth_Terre_mère
Macro_Micro
Glitch_aestétique
@Becca_Abbe
In the early 1970s, a group of technocrats and members of the business elite formed an international organization called the Club of Rome. Together, they commissioned a team of M.I.T. researchers to run a computer analysis of Earth’s finite resources against the exponential growth of human activity.
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WELL ("Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link”)
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#Low_Tech supports the idea that a website can serve a small community connected through common interests. The Internet's global accessibility has lead us to think on a massive scale, but a community that lacks physical proximity can still be “local” in mindset.
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A website can be a testing ground, a micro-utopia, or a safe haven, offering relief from the commodified web.
Par #@Parimal_Satyal #2020 , voir aussi :
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web #2017 #2020
https://neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/ § essai
https://www.paris-web.fr/2020/conferences/against-an-increasingly-user-hostile-web.php § conf
via : Les passages secrets du web
https://serveur410.com/les-passages-secrets-du-web/