Tools for Conviviality
Summary
Argues that tools past a certain scale stop serving people and start controlling them. Calls for “convivial” tools that people can use, understand, and adapt for their own purposes.
Why it’s useful here
Gives a test for any stack the guides recommend: can a non-expert member understand, repair, and modify it?
Key ideas
- Convivial vs. manipulative tools
- Two watersheds: tools become counterproductive past a threshold
Related
- bookchin-1971-post-scarcity-anarchism.md
- franklin-1990-real-world-of-technology.md