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Did you know older tractors are being sought after by midwest farmers?

January 21, 2020

In auctions across the United States, modern farmers are opting to purchase tractors built before 1980, foregoing the latest computer technology. Their logic? By equipping their farms with the older machines they can save on repair costs.

Modern tractors are filled with computers, monitoring all the moving parts and telling users when repair is needed. However, if these machines DO break, farmers are dependent on repair specialists, instead of being able to fix it themselves.

This got me thinking. What if everyone trended towards older machines? Personally, I often find myself wishing my 2006 car had less computerized parts. Repair costs go down with less complexity so these machines are a better option over the long haul.

There could be a series of stories following small-town Americans. Initally, they are enchanted by the prospect of mechanical tractors, and in the end of the first book these mechanical parts could save the farm against a larger, more modern operation. Like Dodgeball, for farms instead of gyms.

Then, in future books, this logic could be applied for other parts of the lives of the main characters. Older cars, a shunning of computers.. the pull of the farm and Amish lifestyle has a large pull in today’s fast-paced society, with shows dedicated to a return to a simpler way of life. These shows highlight the relationships between people and their struggle to fit into the rest of the world around them.

To make this into a more sci-fi concept, and therefore something I could write and add to my catalogue, the main characters could choose to use current technology in an advnaced society: preferring to cook their food instead of have it instantly cook (like in the Fifth Element) and wanting to use normal cars when the rest of the world has hovercrafts.

The use of cars when the rest of society uses hovercrafts would provide an interesting backdrop for a series, with the twist being that hovercrafts are taken offline while the cars still run. To furhter the sci-fi nature there could be an overarching AI, one that the main character and his family never plugs into, and since they havent been analyzed they are the only ones who can save the world.

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