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Low technology, often abbreviated low tech (adjective forms low-technology, low-tech, lo-tech) is simple technology, often of a traditional or non-mechanical kind, such as crafts and tools that pre-date the Industrial Revolution. It is the opposite of high technology. Low technology can typically be practised or fabricated with a minimum of capital investment by an individual or small group of individuals; and that the knowledge of the practice can be completely comprehended by a single individual, free from increasing specialization and compartmentalization. Low-tech techniques and designs may fall into disuse due to changing socio-economic conditions or priorities. ==Examples of low technology== Note: almost all of the entries in this section should be prefixed by the word ''traditional''. * weaving produced on non-automated looms, and basketry. * hand wood-working, joinery, coopering, and carpentry. * the trade of the ship-wright. * the trade of the wheel-wright. * the trade of the wainwright: making wagons. (the Latin word for a two-wheeled ''wagon'' is ''carpentum'', the maker of which was a ''carpenter''.) (''Wright'' is the agent form of the word ''wrought'', which itself is the original past passive participle of the word ''work'', now superseded by the weak verb forms ''worker'' and ''worked'' respectively.) * blacksmithing and the various related smithing and metal-crafts. * folk music played on acoustic instruments. * mathematics (particularly, ''pure mathematics'') * organic farming and animal husbandry (i.e.; agriculture as practiced by all American farmers prior to World War II). * milling in the sense of operating hand-constructed equipment with the intent to either grind grain, or the reduction of timber to lumber as practiced in a saw-mill. * fulling cloth preparing. * the production of charcoal by the collier, for use in home heating, foundry operations, smelting, the various smithing trades, and for brushing ones teeth in Colonial America. * glass-blowing. * various subskills of food preservation: * * smoking * * salting * * pickling * * drying Note: home canning is a counter example of a Low-technology since some of the supplies needed to pursue this skill rely on a global trade network and an existing manufacturing infrastructure. * the production of various alcoholic beverages: * * wine: not quite so well preserved fruit juice. * * beer: a way to preserve the calories of grain products from decay. * * whiskey: an improved (distilled) form of beer. * flint-knapping * masonry as used in castles, cathedrals, and root cellars. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「low technology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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