Amish communities can have phones if they vote for it amongst themselves. The one I saw was a community landline. They had just one in a little shed along the driveway.
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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 17 hours agoCory Doctorow explained in one of his articles that the Amish don’t avoid technology indiscriminately, they weigh the harm against the use. His example was that it’s bad when electronic communication replaces face-to-face contact, but it’s no good either if you can’t contact a vet when your cow falls ill.
modus@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Yeah, my understanding is that typically a shopkeeper or someone like that might have an old-style cell dumbphone, without the Facebooks and stuff.
modus@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Damn. I wish I were Amish.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I was like “wow what a reasoned take, I like cory doctorow for basically everything he says”. Then I read your username and almost did a spit take. Lol