It's been a while since I read the book, but I don't believe that is an accurate description: >The law of the Second New Revised Book of Discipline that govern

It's been a while since I read the book, but I don't believe that is an accurate description: >The law of the Second New Revised Book of Discipline that governs the lives of the avout at the time of the narration... bans the avout from owning anything but two pieces of clothing and a sphere with multiple uses, and bans them from using or even knowing how to use any technology but paper and pen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem Unless you want to argue about whether those limited items are worth calling technology, at which time I will have to point out that we are not the only species to use tools.