Reddit mentions of After the Crash

Good questions, actually. A lot of the Anarcho-technologists see that there's a massive amount of waste (toxic and otherwise) in our current form of technological production. So, you're correct on that.

Some, like myself, only believe that we can achieve true anarchy without capitalism after there have been a few small leaps forward in technology. The sort of leap that will allow you to make your own tech. Computers, phones, etc. are really only silicon, aluminum, brass, glass, rubber, and plastic. Aluminum, silicon, and glass can all be made from aluminosilicate, which is very abundant and found in common clay. (We just need a little technological boost to extract it.) Plastics can be made from hemp (I'm not joking) or can be recycled from old bits of plastic from consumer devices.

Check out this DIY cell phone: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182

And, this guy makes a computer with one central board called a "raspberry pi:" http://revision3.com/tbhs/retro-computer

That guy turns his raspberry computer into an experimentation console, but raspberry pi's can run linux (free), and browse the web, just like regular computers.

Another big part of the new DIY movement is 3D printing. An open source version of a 3D printer that's very popular is called a Rep Rap: http://youtu.be/FUB1WgiAFHg?t=2m

And, there's a guy in Missouri named Marcin Jakubowski who's trying to create an aluminum extractor that can use clay: http://blog.opensourceecology.org/2010/12/open-source-aluminum/

(The majority of aluminum is right now made from bauxite, which is aluminum ore, mined from the earth.)

So, you can see. DIY technology could, in the next few years, really give the means of production to the worker not just collectively, but individually. And we'd be building things for ourselves that won't shit the bed in five years like consumer products. (That's called planned obsolescence and it's gotten quite a bit worse in the past 30 years or so.)

People are also making their own robots, vacuum cleaners, coffee pots, etc. Here's a series of books that starts with a very simple foundry made from a bucket and some clay, that progresses through drill presses and lathes, and finishes with an entire metalworking shop with a milling machine, all that you build yourself: http://lindsaybks.com/dgjp/djgbk/series/index.html

So, your fishing community might but up against a community of metal workers and one of computer nerds who just do this shit for fun.

There are a lot more concepts of tech-inspired anarchy. Home farming and homesteading. Aquaponics, permaculture, this sort of thing.

I've actually written a fictional book about it that pretty well explains it. And it's free from a large online book retailer (today's the last day for that): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008J7CNW4

And, it's free in other forms (.doc and .pdf): http://batcountryword.com/index.php/after-the-crash-a-novel-by-bat-country/