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It should be underscored that any community interested in its own self-determination should: (1), have production capacity of the essential components as part of its own infrastructure, or, (2), should have external relations established for providing these technologies without incurring geopolitical compromises. We are talking of basic needs here– and the basics must be provided internally to secure stable society by design. | It should be underscored that any community interested in its own self-determination should: (1), have production capacity of the essential components as part of its own infrastructure, or, (2), should have external relations established for providing these technologies without incurring geopolitical compromises. We are talking of basic needs here– and the basics must be provided internally to secure stable society by design. | ||
Revision as of 03:19, 25 February 2008
Introduction
Technology may be broken down into a collection of fundamental building blocks or modules that make up technological devices. When one understands how technological things work, it turns out that there is a rather small set of underlying building blocks that much of technology has in common. Modules or building blocks of technology may be identified. These building blocks are like words that make up sentences. If we can understand the words, or building blocks, then we can master the language, or technosphere.
The key benefit of a pattern language is the transparency that it sheds on a subject. This is the aim of exposing the underlying components of all technologies - so that people can understand the technology around them. Only when non-specialists begin to understand technology will humanity be able to master its technological base. When this happens, humans cease being slaves to poor technology choice.
To understand the pattern language of technology, we began breaking down technological devices into their components. Here we discuss one possible breakdown.
We chose a small set of technologies for building the infrastructure of Global Villages of tomorrow. These technologies are those discussed on the main page.
All of these technologies have a smaller set of undrelying building blocks that they are made of. This set of building blocks is essentially 18 items, discussed below.
OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY PATTERN LANGUAGE
The technological components of interest in the Global Village Construction Set constitute basic building blocks of economies. More complex products and devices may be represented by a collection of icons. We remind the reader that the proposed set is not complete, but sufficient- applicable in a broad range of applications. Other technologies may and should be used where appropriate.
It should be underscored that any community interested in its own self-determination should: (1), have production capacity of the essential components as part of its own infrastructure, or, (2), should have external relations established for providing these technologies without incurring geopolitical compromises. We are talking of basic needs here– and the basics must be provided internally to secure stable society by design.