Old and Small Technology

Old technology is any tech that’s, well… old. Small technology is any tech that has a small footprint: doesn’t require a powerful machine to run, doesn’t have a lot of bloat, doesn’t have anti-features like spyware and tracking. Technology that is old enough is almost always small because, by modern standards, that’s all that was possible back then. Some small tech is old, some is modern. Embedded systems are an example of modern small tech development in many cases. Benefits of Small Technology According to the Small Technology Foundation, small tech is: easy to use private by default peer to peer zero knowledge non-colonial personal share alike interoperable non-commercial inclusive While these don’t describe all old and small tech, they are certainly aspirational values for the movement. They are much more commonly found, and to a stronger degree, in old and small tech than in more traditional contemporary “big tech”. The Value of Old & Small Technologies Older tech ... Read full article.