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Appropriate technology is a condition where humans have befriended technology, and have succeeded in robustification to the point that anyone can design, build, and use any technological artifact. This requires a framework of open, collaborative development. | Appropriate technology is a condition where humans have befriended technology, and have succeeded in its robustification to the point that anyone can design, build, and use any technological artifact. This requires a framework of open, collaborative development. | ||
The conviviality or affection of technology is a condition where technology has become increasingly human-centered and its user interface so simple, that anyone can be the master of the technology that they use. This solves | The conviviality or affection of technology is a condition where technology has become increasingly human-centered and its user interface so simple, that anyone can be the master of the technology that they use. This solves the perennial critique of people being enslaved by technology. On one side, there is wisdom to use technology wisely. However, that wisdom is not sufficient for someone to master the things that they use: proprietary black box technology that requires specialist skills and which is designed for obsolescence - traps people in high cost, dependence, and makes life harder when critical technology fails. These are precisely the issues that technology was supposed to solve in the first. Thus, the myth of technology is alive and well. | ||
Today we have technology that allows a single individual to produce enough goods for thousands of others. Yet many people in the advanced countries are poor [https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/07/why-poverty-might-be-far-worse-in-the-us-than-its-reported.html#:~:text=As%20of%20January%202021%2C%2037.9,world%20in%20terms%20of%20GDP.]. This is an an issues that can be solved easily in principle, but not easily in execution. | |||
OSE's solution is to distribute wealth. We do this by collaborative design of [[Distributive Enterprise]] and the associated [[Distributed Market Substitution]]. This has not been solved yet. | |||
Revision as of 17:29, 14 May 2023
Appropriate technology is a condition where humans have befriended technology, and have succeeded in its robustification to the point that anyone can design, build, and use any technological artifact. This requires a framework of open, collaborative development.
The conviviality or affection of technology is a condition where technology has become increasingly human-centered and its user interface so simple, that anyone can be the master of the technology that they use. This solves the perennial critique of people being enslaved by technology. On one side, there is wisdom to use technology wisely. However, that wisdom is not sufficient for someone to master the things that they use: proprietary black box technology that requires specialist skills and which is designed for obsolescence - traps people in high cost, dependence, and makes life harder when critical technology fails. These are precisely the issues that technology was supposed to solve in the first. Thus, the myth of technology is alive and well.
Today we have technology that allows a single individual to produce enough goods for thousands of others. Yet many people in the advanced countries are poor [1]. This is an an issues that can be solved easily in principle, but not easily in execution.
OSE's solution is to distribute wealth. We do this by collaborative design of Distributive Enterprise and the associated Distributed Market Substitution. This has not been solved yet.