I love that permaculture is getting so much interest here. (I shared a link to Bill Mollison’s book early during shelter-and-place and it seemed to really reson

I love that permaculture is getting so much interest here. (I shared a link to Bill Mollison’s book early during shelter-and-place and it seemed to really resonate.) Cool to see people wanting to apply its principles to areas like technology. One thing I’m reminded of here specifically is Steve Job’s idea that computers should be a “Bicycle for the Mind”. (Look up his talk from the early 80s on it if you haven’t seen it.) There’s so much overlap in the early days of personal computing with ideas like Permaculture. Kind of a blend of hippie-utopian ideas. I wonder if the Apple II was the closest thing to embodying what the author here is imagining. A bicycle for the mind, and a computer that enabled local communities. Something extensible, which you could hack. Would not be out of place to find an Apple II powering a little solar farm and water pump. Some would probably say the Amiga as well. I love this aesthetic — a kind of retro futurism. Apple’s early advertisements of a computer in the kitchen, in the classroom, etc, really captured that ethos.