Evolution of the Amish

I read an article in the New York Time from September 2009 about an Amish community transitioning their local newspaper titled "The Budget" into the digtal age.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/technology/internet/21link.html?_r=1 Now and days even the Amish has become apart of the internet hype. I've always known the Amish of being diligent to their cultural practices besides the reality show "Amish in the City" from some time ago. http://www.newline.com/amishinthecity/ . " Amish in the city" was a show where young Amish adults were placed in a house with other guys and girls in L. A. Usually during this time the young adults are allowed to go places such as Malls and do activities such as driving a car that are not normally allowed in the Amish culture. This time is called a "Rumspringa", http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5455572 The teens are allowed go out and exeperience the outside world, it is expected for them to return to the church. The Amish are Gemeinschaft communities that haven't yet evolved into the society whereas electronic devices are attachments to their lives. They secluded themselves and work and produced things for each other. These Amish communities have control of the mean of production which is better for a community. There is no specialization of work or trade because it is a group efford in everything that is done. I would think that whenever a exchange would take place that a Bazaar market is the adequate way of going about it because the community relationship they have within these small Amish communities. To build a relationship between the producer and the consumer has learnt to be the most beneficial. The Amish decision to step into the digtal age has seem to be confusing because as states in the New York Times, "It wouldn’t just be for an Amish readership anymore.” They are opening up their community to the outside world.