Working with collecting garden waste, I was able to add tomato and other plants to the compost pile that will make the soil for next year’s plants. Working on the computer today I was able to get on a group email to some folks but do not believe the effort will bring much results. Collecting waste in the garden to make new soil took a brief amount of time compared to the time it took to form a new email group list. I learned the lesson over again, that nature trumps technology each time.
When I was young there was much discussion of what we would do with all the leisure time that technology would offer us. Now that I am older and we have the technology we are more busy with less leisure time than ever.
Some accused Mahatma Gandhi of being anti-technology by his emphasis on local products and natural ways. However, he said that he was not against technology but how it was used — the means are just as important as the end. Often technology does not make life more simple and easier, but more complicated and tougher.
Now clearly I am not anti technology and this message is brought to you only by technology. However, a wiki web site, like this one created by my friend Tegan of Emergency Digital, is a lot simpler and user-friendly that a normal web site.
Like I have found in the five pane Air inserts, quite often the low-tech ways of doing something are more effective as well as affordable.
Technology often makes haste but not always more leisure or renewable waste as nature.
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