Laptops/wifi can give you a sense of connectedness in remote communities.

These things can coexist with the log cabin and open fire.  Less intensive farming can help sustain wildlife habitats and biodiversity.

contadino digitale!

(translation 'digitised peasant', but it rings much better in italiano)

that's the future, and a good, noble and dignified one it could be.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty