Name: The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future
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Author: John Michael Greer
ISBN: 9781915952226

portada The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future

The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future

Type

Physical Book

Author

John Michael Greer

Publisher

Sphinx Books

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781915952226

Synopsis "The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future"

An examination to discover 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 sales are declining while printed books rebound. Clear signs among many that blind faith in progress is faltering and opening up the possibility that the best way forward may well involve going back. A must-read for anyone willing to think the unthinkable and embrace the possibilities of a retro future.

John Michael Greer

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Nacido en el austero pueblo naval de Bremerton, Washington, y criado en los suburbios del sur de Seattle, comencé a escribir casi en cuanto aprendí a sostener un lápiz. La máxima del editor de ciencia ficción George Scithers, que decía que todos los aspirantes a escritores tienen un millón de palabras de mala prosa y que tienen que escribirla, resume bastante bien las dos décadas transcurridas entre mi primer intento serio de escribir un libro y mi primer libro publicado, "Senderos de Sabiduría", publicado en 1996. Actualmente vivo en Cumberland, Maryland, con mi esposa Sara; soy presidente —Gran Archidruida es el título oficial— de la Antigua Orden de Druidas de América (AODA), una orden druida fundada en 1912; y escribo en media docena de campos de no ficción, casi todos centrados en el resurgimiento de ideas, perspectivas y tradiciones prácticas olvidadas del basurero de la historia.

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