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The Amish as ‘adaptive techno-selectives’

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Michel Bauwens
9th September 2006


Here is a very interesting, and positive take, on how the Mennonites and Amish react to new technologies, not by simply accepting or rejecting everything, but by selective adapting those technologies that do not underminde their community ethos.

Read it here. Howard Rheingold earlier described the uproar caused by cellphones in the Amish communities.

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