{"product_id":"the-retro-future-looking-to-the-past-to-reinvent-the-future-9781915952226","title":"The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn examination to discover a solution for the troubles of our modern age: technical regression.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it's clear that things are going very, very wrong. We no longer have unlimited time and resources to deal with the crises that define our future, and the options are limited to the tools we have on hand right now.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is about one very powerful option: deliberate technological regression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnological regression isn't about \"going back\"--it's about using the past as a resource to meet the needs of the present. It starts from the recognition that older technologies generally use fewer resources and cost less than modern equivalents, and it embraces the heresy of technological choice--our ability to choose or refuse the technologies pushed by corporate interests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeople are already ditching smartphones and going back to \"dumb phones\" and land lines and e-book sales are declining while printed books rebound. Clear signs among many that blind faith in progress is faltering and opening up the possibility that the best way forward may well involve going back.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA must-read for anyone willing to think the unthinkable and embrace the possibilities of a retro future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Michael Greer\u003c\/strong\u003e is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including T\u003cem\u003ehe New Encyclopedia of the Occult, The Druidry Handbook, The Celtic Golden Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e and C\u003cem\u003eircles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic.\u003c\/em\u003e An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Martinist Order, and three Druid traditions, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He is also the author of seventeen fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society. He lives in Rhode Island and blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sphinx Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50916230496530,"sku":"9781915952226","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4469b8b7-e359-4e89-bca2-76b9eeeaf8d4.jpg?v=1738845305","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-retro-future-looking-to-the-past-to-reinvent-the-future-9781915952226","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}