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-Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and
-keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are
-(animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what
-they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people
-aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them,
-and I think most of my readers are too.
-
-Technology is the active human interface with the material world.
-
-But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and
-specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive
-exploitation both of natural and human resources.
-
-This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not
-synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any
-meaningful sense.
-
-We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly
-expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a
-computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen
-were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs,
-aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers —
-as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled
-glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...
+How to a permacomputing collective
+==================================
+
+This is a guide brewed from conversations with initiatives in London (UK),
+Berlin (DE), Prague (CZ), Philadelphia (USA), Rotterdam (NL), Vienna (AT),
+Lutruwtia (Tas/AU), County Mayo (IE) and a community from Middle America
+gathering on servers. This text can support you when starting a permacomputing
+collective. It isn’t a strict recipe but more of a loose framework that can be
+freely modified to suit local tastes and conditions. Many actions are cyclical
+and can be seen as opportunities torevisit or re-purpose later.
+
+Start where it makes sense for you.
* [[brew the base]]: stories about how groups started
