[Fascinating] NYTimes: In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: September 16, 2017 at 2:50:52 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] [Fascinating] NYTimes: In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling
>
>
> [Fascinating] NYTimes: In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/business/amish-technology.html
>
>      A young woman, wearing a traditional full-length Amish dress
>    and white bonnet, stepped away from a farmer's market, opened
>    her palm and revealed a smartphone. She began to scroll
>    through screens, seemingly oblivious to the activity around
>    her.  Not far away, a man in his late 60s with a silvery
>    beard, wide-brimmed straw hat and suspenders adjusted the
>    settings on a computer-driven crosscut saw. He was soon
>    cutting pieces for gazebos that are sold online and delivered
>    around the country.  The Amish have not given up on
>    horse-drawn buggies. Their rigid abstinence from many kinds of
>    technology has left parts of their lifestyle frozen since the
>    19th century: no cars, TVs or connections to electric
>    utilities, for example.  But computers and cellphones are
>    making their way into some Amish communities, pushing them --
>    sometimes willingly, often not -- into the 21st century.  New
>    technology has created fresh opportunities for prosperity
>    among the Amish, just as it has for people in the rest of the
>    world. A contractor can call a customer from a job site. A
>    store owner's software can make quick work of payroll and
>    inventory tasks. A bakery can take credit cards.
>
> - - -
>
> As the ancient saying goes: "Trees that don't bend with the wind, won't
> last the storm." And the Amish intend to stick around.
>
> --Lauren--



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