The Printed Website: Volume III & The Comments
The printed archives of Low-tech Magazine now amount to four volumes with a total of 2,398 pages and 709 images.
ICT
Interesting possibilities arise when you combine old technology with new knowledge and new materials, or when you apply old concepts and traditional knowledge to modern technology.
Technology has become the idol of our society, but technological progress is—more often than not—aimed at solving problems caused by earlier technical inventions.
There is a lot of potential in past and often forgotten knowledge and technologies when it comes to designing a sustainable society.
How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops
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.
How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?
We present our website’s energy and uptime data, calculate the embodied energy of our configuration, consider the optimal balance between sustainability and server uptime, and outline possible improvements.
The Solar Powered Website in Spanish, French, and Other Languages
During the last months we have been working on transforming Low-tech Magazine into a multilingual publication.
Low-tech Magazine: The Printed Website
Read Low-tech Magazine with no access to a computer, a power supply, or the internet.
How to Build a Low-tech Website?
Our new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.
Rebooting Energy Demand: Automatic Software Upgrades
More and more consumer products are controlled by networked software: what does this mean for energy demand, and exactly who is responsible for increasing consumption?
The Curse of the Modern Office
The information society promises to dematerialise society and make it more sustainable, but modern office and knowledge work has itself become a large and rapidly growing consumer of energy and other resources
Why the Office Needs a Typewriter Revolution
Could we rethink and redesign office equipment, combining the best of mechanical and digital devices?
How to Build a Low-tech Internet
If we want the internet to keep working in circumstances where access to energy is more limited, we can learn important lessons from alternative network technologies.
The 4G Mobile Internet That’s Already There
These days, so many households have a WiFi-router installed that sharing the signal of these devices could provide free mobile internet access across densely populated cities.
Why We Need a Speed Limit for the Internet
The energy use of the internet can only stop growing when energy sources run out, unless we impose self-chosen limits.
How Sustainable is Digital Fabrication?
Automation is more energy-intensive than mechanisation.
The Monster Footprint of Digital Technology
The embodied energy of the memory chip alone exceeds the energy consumption of a laptop during its life expectancy of 3 years.
Life Before Television
Turn off your flat screen television and get lost in 17th, 18th and 19th century optical entertainment.
The Right to 35 Mobiles
The high energy consumption of the mobile phone network is mainly due to the limited life span of the phones.
Satellite Navigation in the 18th Century
More than two centuries ago, it was possible to very accurately pinpoint your position on earth by means of ‘satellites’.
Email in the 18th Century: The Optical Telegraph
More than 200 years ago it was already possible to send messages throughout Europe and America at the speed of an aeroplane – wireless and without need for electricity.