paleotechnic

I'm thinking these subduction anomalies may be paleotechnic!

Mumford divides the development of technology into three overlapping phases: eotechnic, paleotechnic and neotechnic.

Mumford presciently notes that a small producer can deliver what is needed when it is needed more efficiently than paleotechnic assembly lines.

Abbott's agreement with Mumford can be seen especially in the ways that she photographed buildings that had been constructed in the paleotechnic era-before the advent of urban planning.

Abbott, like Mumford, was particularly critical of America's "paleotechnic era," which, as he described it, emerged at end of the American Civil War, a development called by other historians the Second Industrial Revolution.

The second phase, the paleotechnic (roughly 1700 to 1900), is "an upthrust into barbarism, aided by the very forces and interests which originally had been directed toward the conquest of the environment and the perfection of human nature."

The conceit was an archeological dig of relics from "the Paleotechnic era," complete with ancient tape drives, outmoded memory modules, and big chunks of a Cray-I supercomputer, a 70's speed demon turned buggy whip.

War and mass sport he saw as social releases from mechanized life, and the hysteric duties of wartime production (or even the hysteria of a baseball team's victory) is a natural outgrowth of the tensions and structures of such paleotechnic life.

Like Mumford, Abbott was hopeful that, through urban planning efforts (aided by her photographs), Americans would be able to wrest control of their cities from paleotechnic forces, and bring about what Mumford described as a more humane and human-scaled, "neotechnic era".