Many environmentalists today are touting the merits of a return to what they call "low-tech" as opposed to high-tech, which characterizes modern technologies, in particular digital, robotics and artificial intelligence. . Low-tech products would have to believe them many virtues on the environmental plan, but also human.
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First, because they are simple, easily repairable, practical, economical and infinitely easier to recycle than high-tech, the components of which are most often impossible to disentangle. It should be added that in general they also consume less energy. But there is more: low-tech would make it possible to relocate production in favor of local manufacturing, therefore non-relocatable employment, or even the famous "do it yourself" ("do it yourself") which would make it possible to put people and their know-how back at the heart of economic activities.
In medicine first, low-tech would mean a death sentence for tens, if not hundreds of millions of people who today benefit from the benefits of modern medicine.Reading these lines, I am fairly certain that many readers
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