Message-ID: <199609301508.QAA15575@mail.uva.nl> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:08:01 +0100 From: Grant Ballard-Tremeer <mailto:B.Tremeer@MAIL.UVA.NL> Subject: DEVEL-L:ideas of "appropriate technology" still respected? To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
As far as a remember the main thrust of Schumacher's work was not on the technological quality/content of the technology, but on the scale - hence the title: Small is Beautiful. Appropiate technologies are appropriate because they 'fit' - they are the right size. Intermediate technology (according the Schumacher), I think, is not intermediate because it is 'on the way to' full technology, but intermediate being between small and big. Correct me if I'm wrong...Grant
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