We have launched the first volume in a new series of books opening up Low-tech Magazine’s archive by theme.
As a freelance journalist – or an office worker if you wish – I have always believed that I should regularly buy a new laptop. But older machines offer more quality for much less money.
Could we rethink and redesign office equipment, combining the best of mechanical and digital devices?
The energy use of the internet can only stop growing when energy sources run out, unless we impose self-chosen limits.
The embodied energy of the memory chip alone exceeds the energy consumption of a laptop during its life expectancy of 3 years.
Wood, steel, aluminium, iron, glass, paper, plastics, copper, silicon, nickel, titanium, electronic grade silicon.
If you want a revival of sail the high-tech way, you can have it.
Imagine you put a portable hard disk of 500 gigabytes in your backpack and start walking. In which cases are you faster than your internet connection?