Amistics

Neal Stephenson coins a useful word Amistics in his novel Seveneves:

" it was a question of Amistics, which was a term that had been coined ages ago by a Moiran anthropologist to talk about the choices that different cultures made as to which technologies they would, and would not, make part of their lives. The word went all the way back to the Amish people " All cultures did this, frequently without being consciously aware that they had made collective choices.

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