Lowtech questions the two year upgrade cycle. A lot of people say that new media is revolutionary. They say the net is anarchic and subversive. Lowtech counters exclusivity. Lowtech is street level technology.
Text is great for communicating.
Write down what you want to say. Make it clear and simple and non-exclusive. Fast, low cost global communication for the ordinary citizen is genuinely something new. HTML is good for lots more than web pages. Now you can author all sorts of graphical stuff with a plain text editor.