Tools for Conviviality (Ivan Illich, 1973) --

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institutions are functional when they promote a delicate balance between what people can do for themselves and what tools at the service of anonymous institutions can do for them

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do we want to make tools that extend our humanities!

as opposed to tools that feed into themselves .... ->

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the use of science and technology constantly supports the industrial mode of production, and thereby crowds off the scene all tool shops for independent enterprise. But this is not the necessary result of new scientific discoveries or of their useful application. it is rather the result of a total prejudice in favor of the future expansion of an industrial mode of production.

but science can also be used to simplify tools and to enable the layman to shape his immediate environment to his taste

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may we appealingly add,

his/her immediate governance

Ivan Illich describes clearly how tools can reduce or extend our humanities

writing in the 1970s he could but imagine the technology that we have in the 2020s

I perceive these ideas interwoven with the Spirit of NOSTR among others

our humanities are extended when the tools which we use support our pursuit for meaning, enable creative work and use technology to save people time and to have more "timenergy" (David McKerracher, 2023).