July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 49m
English

Photography by Liz Filardi
Armed only with information, I turn rocks and sticks into an electronic signal.
All of my tools are made by bigger tools somewhere else. How far back does this lineage of tools go? I wondered if someone alone in the woods could make an Information Age object, armed with nothing but information?
In the summer of 2009, I headed out for the wilderness of Mineral County, Montana, to test this question. With no tools or materials except the ability to search the internet, I endeavored to learn how sticks and stones lying on the ground have been transformed into a metallic, electric society. ...
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