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> because while 50 or so years behind everyone else, the Amish are still going to adopt grid electricity, smartphones and Node.js sooner or later. [citation ne
by fao_ 5y ago
> because while 50 or so years behind everyone else, the Amish are still going to adopt grid electricity, smartphones and Node.js sooner or later.
[citation needed]
- Toutouxc 5y agoThe last few paragraphs of the article strongly hint at that. With the boy carrying a cellphone and the inverter-for-coffee pot stuff and how the line is moving and how the amish are steadily adopting technology at their pace.
- as300 5y agoI mean, the boy's father also says that there will always be "horse and buggy" Amish. We are forgetting that there are different Amish orders that lie on a spectrum of conservatism within the Amish community. Even if there are some groups that end up looking more like us there will always be the Amish who don't use the internet, electricity, and probably even diesel power.