de-tech?
I’m thinking about the Amazon Mechanical Turk.
It goes at human pace since humans are the ones doing the work, yet it is sped up by working n number of people at the same time. I can’t imagine the software architecture/infrastructure needed to facillitate this is too hard. They are trying to find Steve Fossett using this, having people look at satellite images.
Perhaps I will look into this as an example of de-technologizing.