Difference between revisions of "Convivial Tools"
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My attention instead turned to the exploration of the Internet as a tool. As a friend recently observed, I've been diverted from my project of making reparable washing machines to a project of making easily reparable machines for the processing of information flows. | My attention instead turned to the exploration of the Internet as a tool. As a friend recently observed, I've been diverted from my project of making reparable washing machines to a project of making easily reparable machines for the processing of information flows. | ||
| − | I now envisage a separate project to make internet tools more convivial. For example, open source software | + | I now envisage a separate project to make internet tools more convivial. For example, open source software embodies many of the characteristics of convivial tools, but is generally still too hard to use, with modules that are far from being "reparable" by the average user. |
But I would also still like to get back to the reparable washing machine.... | But I would also still like to get back to the reparable washing machine.... | ||
