Interesting to note the cutural issues here..
I live in a place where the aboriginal tribes still maintain a wierd mix of technological and primitive: Alaska.
It is not uncommon for a guy to go out fishing in a skin boat, wearing a skin parka, over bluejeans and a modern pendleton wool shirt, with a steel harpoon and a portable GPS.
Where the dog team is kept for when the snowmobiles won't start. Where food is still caught and gathered, not sown and grown, but now is hunted with high-power rifles from dogsled or snowmobile.
Snowmachines are bought in three or four machine lots, and you try to match models with your neighbors, so you can share parts, cause one of them will break and become parts.
I've seen several Alaskan bush villages; they are the most mixed up tech bed I can think of. One of the most fun: a 1950's trailer home with a sod peaked roof added, right next to an old army quonset hut coated in spray-foam. Dogsled in the front, team in the back, no car, an outhouse, and satellite TV. Oh, plus a generator installed in a mid-60's dodge in place of the tranny.
PNG starts to sound like paradise...
Me, I live in a fairly modern town, Eagle River, 10 miles from the "Metropolis" of Anchorage. Cable, Natural Gas, Phone, Water, Sewer, and Garbage utilities, rather than those services being luxuries.
And yet, just 20 miles further, is the Butte; almost no paved roads save the highway, delivered propane, no TV save via DSL, phone through the same provider, and DSL for data, too.
Quite a range.
I live in a place where the aboriginal tribes still maintain a wierd mix of technological and primitive: Alaska.
It is not uncommon for a guy to go out fishing in a skin boat, wearing a skin parka, over bluejeans and a modern pendleton wool shirt, with a steel harpoon and a portable GPS.
Where the dog team is kept for when the snowmobiles won't start. Where food is still caught and gathered, not sown and grown, but now is hunted with high-power rifles from dogsled or snowmobile.
Snowmachines are bought in three or four machine lots, and you try to match models with your neighbors, so you can share parts, cause one of them will break and become parts.
I've seen several Alaskan bush villages; they are the most mixed up tech bed I can think of. One of the most fun: a 1950's trailer home with a sod peaked roof added, right next to an old army quonset hut coated in spray-foam. Dogsled in the front, team in the back, no car, an outhouse, and satellite TV. Oh, plus a generator installed in a mid-60's dodge in place of the tranny.
PNG starts to sound like paradise...
Me, I live in a fairly modern town, Eagle River, 10 miles from the "Metropolis" of Anchorage. Cable, Natural Gas, Phone, Water, Sewer, and Garbage utilities, rather than those services being luxuries.
And yet, just 20 miles further, is the Butte; almost no paved roads save the highway, delivered propane, no TV save via DSL, phone through the same provider, and DSL for data, too.
Quite a range.
