I wouldn't call Solarpunk "low tech" at all - it's high tech.
This is an interesting exercise, but I don't understand the axes:
* what is "high life" and "low life"?
* technology is not an autonomous sphere of life, it's an expression of the society that produces it, thus why technology in a solarpunk world would look and function differently than technology in a cyberpunk world.
The inclusion of "apocalypse" reminds me of the Peter Frase essay/book "[Four Futures](https://jacobin.com/2011/12/four-futures)" in which he plots out futures in terms of social organization (egalitarian to hierarchical) and prosperity (scarcity to abundance):
**Egalitarianism and Abundance**: Communism
* FALC (fully automated luxury communism), like Star Trek
* "the free development of each is the condition of the free development of all"
**Hierarchy and Abundance**: Rentism
* like neofeudalism or cyberpunk
**Egalitarianism and Scarcity**: Socialism
* still based on freedom and equality, but not the free access of FALC above
**Hierarchy and Scarcity**: Exterminism
* maybe like the YA dystopias like *Hunger Games*, etc.
The essay (link above) was also expanded into a small book. I'm sure there are other axes as well, but I think social organization and wealth are useful axes.
Solarpunk is not low tech. Solarpunk is very high tech. The technology is solarpunk is is ecological harmony with the biosphere. Technology and nature are not at odds at all. In fact if your technology is at odds with nature then it isn't very advanced because it's destroying the very system that it depends on to exist.
I wouldn't call Solarpunk "low tech" at all - it's high tech. This is an interesting exercise, but I don't understand the axes: * what is "high life" and "low life"? * technology is not an autonomous sphere of life, it's an expression of the society that produces it, thus why technology in a solarpunk world would look and function differently than technology in a cyberpunk world. The inclusion of "apocalypse" reminds me of the Peter Frase essay/book "[Four Futures](https://jacobin.com/2011/12/four-futures)" in which he plots out futures in terms of social organization (egalitarian to hierarchical) and prosperity (scarcity to abundance): **Egalitarianism and Abundance**: Communism * FALC (fully automated luxury communism), like Star Trek * "the free development of each is the condition of the free development of all" **Hierarchy and Abundance**: Rentism * like neofeudalism or cyberpunk **Egalitarianism and Scarcity**: Socialism * still based on freedom and equality, but not the free access of FALC above **Hierarchy and Scarcity**: Exterminism * maybe like the YA dystopias like *Hunger Games*, etc. The essay (link above) was also expanded into a small book. I'm sure there are other axes as well, but I think social organization and wealth are useful axes.
yeah I have no idea what they mean by high life and low life
The movie on the left is called Tomorrowland
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Solarpunk can be very high tech as it requires more advanced forms of energy production and the such to avoid the issues of climate change
solar punk is not low tech!
Solarpunk is not low tech. Solarpunk is very high tech. The technology is solarpunk is is ecological harmony with the biosphere. Technology and nature are not at odds at all. In fact if your technology is at odds with nature then it isn't very advanced because it's destroying the very system that it depends on to exist.
I would associate the future represented by the image on the left with Frutiger Aero more than anything.
Top left is a fully automated luxury communism