Dictionary — ontologydriven

low-tech en · ADJ

(informal) Simple, uncomplicated, primitive, not involving advanced technology.
- The control centre of the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway, is surprisingly low-tech. 2024 December 27, Christian Wolmar, “A mix of modern and traditional on board the Shinkansen”, in RAIL, number 1025, page 40:
- 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. 1991 April 11, James Barron, “Last Automat Closes, Its Era Long Gone”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2022:
- 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. 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer:
- Sometimes the low-tech ways are best: bash it with a rock, that'll loosen it.