low-tech

low-tech

1. (informal) Simple, uncomplicated, primitive, not involving advanced technology.

   Sometimes the low-tech ways are best: bash it with a rock, that'll loosen it.

   • 1991 April 11, James Barron, “Last Automat Closes, Its Era Long Gone”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 December 2022:

     The Automat, whose gleaming chrome-and-glass machines brought high-tech eating to a low-tech era, has gulped down its last coin and served up its last helping of macaroni, baked beans and kaiser rolls.

   • 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer‎^[2]:

     Many jihadist plots have been foiled and the security apparatus is getting better, overall, at pre-empting those who would do us ill. But, they say, the nature of the threat and the terrorists’ increasing use of low-tech, asymmetrical tactics such as hire vehicles and knives, make it all but impossible to stop every assault.

   • 2024 December 27, Christian Wolmar, “A mix of modern and traditional on board the Shinkansen”, in RAIL, number 1025, page 40:

     The control centre of the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway, is surprisingly low-tech.

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