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Old and New Technology in the Land of None
ninthwave writes "The Guardian has this article on the adventures of piano tuners in the Amazon. I think it is a nice lesson in the age of technology to see the perceived hardships of using technology in areas where the natives are quite happy without. More impressive is the old wooden piano seems to survive better than the new synth but that is horse of a different colour."
Not being able to survive in the middle of a rain forest has les to do with our tech as with our reluctance to learn anything about how to survive. Most of the engineers I know would be pretty lost in a rain forest now there are a few of them myself included that would be able to survive barring random act of large agressive animal. Its all about what you decided to learn and our society does not value learing how to survive particularly much. Now persoanly I think everybody that wants to eat (think everybody is included in that one) should go out and kill there dinner at least once. Now I think the big question is would we be happy in the middle of the rain forests persoanly I would say not particularly it's a subsistance lifestyle for the most part.
No sir I dont like it.