What it is
No Tech Magazine is a companion website to Low-Tech Magazine, curating links to articles, research, and projects focused on forgotten technologies, historical solutions, and alternatives to modern high-tech approaches. The site aggregates content from across the web on topics including hand tools, animal power, passive cooling, traditional building techniques, and pre-industrial manufacturing. It serves as a research portal for appropriate technology enthusiasts.
Why we picked this
No Tech Magazine is the research rabbit hole for people who finished Low-Tech Magazine and wanted more. The curation is excellent: every linked article challenges assumptions about progress and reveals solutions that our ancestors developed over centuries. For solarpunk world-builders, designers, and writers, this is an invaluable reference for imagining futures that draw on historical technologies rather than purely speculative ones.
Key takeaways
- The site aggregates research on pre-industrial technologies that often outperform modern equivalents in specific contexts (passive buildings, hand tools, animal transport).
- Content ranges from academic papers to practitioner blogs, covering appropriate technology movements across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
- Free and ad-free, maintained as a public knowledge resource for the appropriate technology community.