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First of all I am reminded to tell you that I never did see any Amish folks driving buggies when I was in the heart of Amish country. Of course I spent most of my time in the office or in my accomodations or dashing to the store to buy things that I needed. On the way to the airport in Philadelphia, I did catch a glimpse of a man plowing his fields with a horse-drawn plow. That was pretty cool. It reminds me of car and bus rides through Rwanda where I have seen some of those mamas there plowing their field with a hoe or pick axe. It’s wild to think that the horse-drawn version is a very significant technological step beyond the hand implement and then even wilder to think about the giant green John Deere tractors that are now even satellite controlled. I am now living in a place of many technological paradoxes. Cell phones but no microwave ovens. Busy automobile traffic but no stop lights. Satellite internet but often instable electricity.