I was struck reading about the Amish and their relationship to technology. We tend to think of the Amish as hopelessly backwards, but every year they convene an

I was struck reading about the Amish and their relationship to technology. We tend to think of the Amish as hopelessly backwards, but every year they convene and discuss new technologies and which ones should be allowed. As you can imagine, the process is highly selective and considers the impact both individually and for the entire community. Negative effects from modern advancements are so common and globally threatening that it is easy to see how the cultural obsession with "new" could be replaced with "stable" as we face more and more of the fallout from this mindset.