Event Announcement Mid-Atlantic readers of The Low-Tech Times should consider attending the Shenandoah Valley Hot Air Balloon and Wine Festival this weekend. The event will feature Virginia wines, bluegrass music, antique cars and fire trucks, a hay bale maze, and the low tech transportation of hot air balloons. Come out to Historic Long Branch in [...]
As long-time readers surely know, I am not a subscriber to cable or satellite TV. There is plenty of programming available broadcast free of charge over the airwaves. However, while on vacation recently in Colorado, I admit that I enjoyed watching some cable TV in the hotels. I especially enjoyed one program in particular on [...]
Timothy B. Lee writes an interesting fantasy about the future, where cars drive by themselves. He sees plenty of benefits to such a system: In short, a car that drives as well as the best human drivers would save tens of thousands of lives in the United States and hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. [...]
The Low-Tech Times previously published a piece considering if Senator John McCain was a low-tech candidate for president. As it turns out, he is not a low-tech candidate. In fact, this article by Jacob Weisburg describes McCain as the most tech-savvy of all the candidates during the 2000 presidential race: Six months ago, no one [...]
Christopher Columbus departed Spain on August 3, 1492 with three ships, the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria. His goal was to find a new route to China and India by sea. The low-tech ships were powered by sail and crews navigated according to the stars above. At 2:00 AM on October 12, 1492, [...]