Appropriate technology
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title:
Appropriate technology
text:
Appropriate technology is a movement encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by its users, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher in his work Small Is Beautiful. Both Schumacher and many modern-day proponents of appropriate technology also emphasize the technology as people-centered. Appropriate tec
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Concept in the philosophy and politics of technology
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology
date created:
2003-03-02T04:28:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T04:07:46Z
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