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Old 02-21-2006, 01:07 AM   #25
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Default Re: Low-Tech vs Fantasy-Tech

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Originally Posted by Kromm
Not just no, but hell, no. It's a tech book. Tech books are catalogs of tech. Demographics no more belong in Low-Tech or its replacement than in High-Tech. And High-Tech will be a catalog . . . just not "all guns, all the time" this time around. The place for analyses of crops, towns, etc., is appropriate historical worldbooks on e23.
Aren't you confusing tech and gadgets? Three-shift agriculture is technology, but it's not gagdets is what I'm saying. I loved Low-Tech but OTOH I understand if you want to make a profit from the books.
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