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Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by its users, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher…
The analysis highlights Movements, History, Art and Technology as prominent areas in the source structure around Appropriate technology.
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TTTA extracted 201 structured relationships around Appropriate technology. Examples in this analysis include Appropriate technology → is a → movement and health → instance of → tends to promote values. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appropriate technology | is a | movement | 0.90 | text |
| health | instance of | tends to promote values | 0.80 | text |
| beauty | instance of | tends to promote values | 0.80 | text |
| permanence | instance of | tends to promote values | 0.80 | text |
| in that order.Often the type of appropriate technology that is used in developed countries is | instance of | tends to promote values | 0.80 | text |
| low cost | instance of | Determining a sustainable approachFeatures | 0.80 | text |
| low usage of fossil fuels | instance of | Determining a sustainable approachFeatures | 0.80 | text |
| use of locally available resources can give some advantages in terms of sustainability | instance of | Determining a sustainable approachFeatures | 0.80 | text |
| Appropriate technology | related to Decline | In | 0.60 | section |
| Appropriate technology | related to Decline | The German Appropriate Technology | 0.60 | section |
| Appropriate technology | related to Decline | Exchange | 0.60 | section |
| Appropriate technology | related to Decline | GATE | 0.60 | section |
The concept neighborhoods around Appropriate technology bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Technology, Movement and Sustainable. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Appropriate technology, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Appropriate technology with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Appropriate technology to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Movements, History, Art & Technology, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Appropriate technology · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout