Paul Boutin wrote a nice article for the New York Times last month entitled Low-Tech Fixes for Hi-Tech Problems. The article begins with a plastic bag solution to unreadable credit cards and goes on to detail low tech solutions to other hi-tech problems. Here is an excerpt:
…it’s one of many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures that people without engineering degrees have discovered, often out of desperation, and shared.
Today’s shaky economy is likely to produce many more such tricks.