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How to do tech like the Amish, pizza history, A-frame history and future, and the future of optical discs

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Addison Del Mastro
Jul 31, 2026
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How the Amish Let Technology in Without Letting It Take Over, The MIT Press Reader, Lindsay Ems, July 27, 2026

This is great:

[I]t was at this inflection point — when everyone seemed to be emphatically saying yes to technology — that I began to seriously investigate why a certain community preferred to say no.

I first began studying the Amish in 2012 as a …

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