Ashok Gadgil
On designing the cook stoves for Darfur
On the elegant simplicity of appropriate technology
Peter Haas
A Genius in Every Village
A Renaissance in Tinkering
Jock Brandis
On the weaknesses of solar cooking technology. I missed the first sentence or so of this, but he’s fairly spot on.
On the fallacy that new is always better.
Jock Brandis retells a story from Burt Rutan, famed aviator, that reveals a common misconception about technological progress: old is sub-par, new is better.
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