Difference between revisions of "Convivial Tools"
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Designing appliances to be easily reparable by their owners would both give consumers more control over technology, and reduce waste by making appliances more durable and easier to recycle. | Designing appliances to be easily reparable by their owners would both give consumers more control over technology, and reduce waste by making appliances more durable and easier to recycle. | ||
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| + | Key elements in the project of marketing [[Reparable Tools]] would be to provide highly usable maintenance manuals and garanteed long-term online availability of all necessary spare parts. A first step could be either to identify the best available products (via a consumer reports type of website), or to have a pilot machine manufactured by a sub-contractor to "convivial" specifications. A second step might be to create a cooperative around this theme (as for example with the [[Cooperative Social Network]]). | ||
==Idea systems and social systems as "tools"== | ==Idea systems and social systems as "tools"== | ||
