pretech

Looking for clues to what went wrong, Denmark's media have dug into Mr. Bagger's personal life, particularly his obsession with physical fitness: how he met his second wife in a favorite gym, how he made money in his pretech days hawking muscle-boosting protein products and how he hired a burly Hells Angels Motorcycle Club member as a bodyguard.

For Denmark's Entrepreneur of Year, Something Was Rotten 2008

This was the pretech experience, that even if you had no enemies the world itself could kill you.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

vv: True, but the better analogy is across the entire kingdom of life vv: When dealing with "superhumans" it is not the same thing as comparing -- say -- our tech civ with a pretech human civ.

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