Today a technician spent over 4 hours at my house upgrading my TV and Internet system. It turns out the newer high tech, high quality, fast speed systems cost less than my former TV and Internet system. So sometimes more technology can mean a savings. But with the new TV system comes more TV, which can be good or bad, depending on use. With the new Internet connection comes faster speed, which can be nice.


With all this technology going on I did not spend as much time as I did the last few days building the soil, making the compost pile or feeding the worm depository. Now these GP things are real, low tech but very effective. The GP technique, dependent on lowly worms, shows us that sometimes we cannot improve on nature.

High tech is a rapid growth industry; the faster it changes the faster it changes. Lowly worms are part of nature’s processes which might seem slow but are slow.

Yesterday and briefly today the server in Chicago that serves this site and the other Milwaukee Renaissance sites had a failure. A real mess, but it seems to have gotten fixed. High tech sometimes can come crashing time. Where on the other hand, low tech, like having working worms, is slow to change. There can be a sudden flood wiping out a crop, but you know that the crop will eventually come back. It all just happens much slower.

Actually there is no choice between high tech and lowly worm power. We need both to survive. We need high technology which is fast to build, grow, and expand, and low worm ways, which are slow to build and grow. The world is coming to a marriage of high tech and low worms.

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