Rawniology

n. The study of persons and groups who cling to out-dated forms of technology
and ways of life. For example, those who continue to use a typewriter rather
than a word processor; send letters by snail-mail, even though E-mail is
available and acceptable or carry out back-breaking tasks like farming when
they have means to buy and the skill to use modern, more efficient, time-saving
equipment. Based on “rawnie” a dialect word, probably of Cheshire origins, used
by my grandmother (died age 90 yrs in 1962) meaning and by analogy, “The
Tree still grows strongly, though a bough is dead.”