Intermediate technology has meant many things to many people as a type of technology which lies in between the primitivetechnology and sophisticated technology.
The deal would transform the relatively primitive Soviet telephone network into one utilizing high technology fiber-optic cable and switching equipment.
With few exceptions, the military's IO and public affairs policies are primitive enough as they are, even though we have all the technology and human talent we need.
But as nuclear and missile technology has proliferated in the post-Cold War period, and more technologically primitive countries get their hands on missiles and limited nuclear capabilities, the threat of an EMP attack as become far more acute.
It was a primitive trip with a sophisticated goal: to understand how heavy use of digital devices and other technology changes how we think and behave, and how a retreat into nature might reverse those effects.