There was a very interesting panel on that subject at the last WorldCon. Disclaimer: I have done no serious study of the actual Amish people and everything I think I know beyond what's current in popular culture comes from one visit to an Amish community 9 years ago and the contents of that one WorldCon panel. But according to that background, they don't enforce a single unchanging limit on their technical level. Rather, they exercise extreme caution in adopting new technologies- new technologies can be adopted, but only after consideration of all of the possible social side-effects of doing so and general consensus that it results in a net positive. Thus, different communities have different technological restrictions (or perhaps it would be better framed as "different technological allowances"). Other communities operating under the same kind of social system could have wildly different distributions of technology depending on the details of the founding culture.
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I imagine that we might take a page from the Amish, and end up with various communities where a maximum level of technology is enforced.
There was a very interesting panel on that subject at the last WorldCon. Disclaimer: I have done no serious study of the actual Amish people and everything I think I know beyond what's current in popular culture comes from one visit to an Amish community 9 years ago and the contents of that one WorldCon panel. But according to that background, they don't enforce a single unchanging limit on their technical level. Rather, they exercise extreme caution in adopting new technologies- new technologies can be adopted, but only after consideration of all of the possible social side-effects of doing so and general consensus that it results in a net positive. Thus, different communities have different technological restrictions (or perhaps it would be better framed as "different technological allowances"). Other communities operating under the same kind of social system could have wildly different distributions of technology depending on the details of the founding culture.