Low Tech

Recently, The Lancet published a piece that proves that these same cost-effective, low-tech, community-based interventions I saw in Shivgarh can be effective as part of a country's regular health system. ❋ Melinda Gates (2011)

While the military still trains to respond to the use of weapons of mass destruction, the Army and the Marine Corps have largely been preoccupied over the past decade with combating relatively low-tech insurgents. ❋ Nathan Hodge (2011)

That all this high-technology may sometimes err is as certain as the fallibility of low-tech humans. ❋ Christine Negroni (2011)

Developing high-tech biotechnologies as an alternative to low-tech mining isn't without risk. ❋ Gavin Lower (2011)

I had gone from a low-touch, high-tech existence to the precise opposite: high-touch, low-tech. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

And for something a little more … er … low-tech, check out The Riot Wheel, which is more the Mad Max Road Warrior version. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Forced to do without Internet access, Egyptians are using low-tech technologies to communicate with each other and people abroad. ❋ The Huffington Post (2011)

We are hitting the "digital divide" and as soon as we get enough donations we will start using some more low-tech ways of recruiting volunteers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Winged shuttles and SSTOs are all very nice, nicely futuristic and all, but I wonder if Von Braun with his gigantic, low-tech 3STO "shuttles" wasn't on the right track back in the late 1940s, after all. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a low-tech innovation, soldiers from the 101st Airborne keep water, food and ammunition in black body bags, nicknamed speedballs, ready for immediate delivery by helicopter or parachute to troops running low during firefights. ❋ Michael M. Phillips (2011)

These tangible improvements will benefit ordinary Nigerians and create the low-tech jobs needed to address unemployment. ❋ Gordon Bottomley (2011)

Occupy Wall Street's internal communications are much more low-tech. ❋ David Weidner (2011)

As a result, genetically modified crops may soon become a necessity: yields of bioengineered U.S. corn will increase more than 40 percent in the next four decades — far faster than those of low-tech crops. — “Revisiting Malthus in Light of Agricultural Biotechnology,” University of Georgia ❋ Unknown (2009)

With the Cold War over, and myriad of low-tech enemies we're fighting around the globe, the actual multiplying effect in much of 'military space' is debatable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

u didnt know that [dick and jane] were [going out]?? wow you are really low tech. thats [old news]! ❋ Hoobla (2005)

Person 1: [My computer] is broken , [I need help]. Person 2: you just need to update , you [low tech lowger]!!! ❋ Byefilicia (2022)