Difference between revisions of "Convivial Tools"
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My projects in the field of Convivial Tools got bogged down in the details of fleshing out the several websites that I created on the subject. Moreoever, I failed to connect with any broader community on this theme. | My projects in the field of Convivial Tools got bogged down in the details of fleshing out the several websites that I created on the subject. Moreoever, I failed to connect with any broader community on this theme. | ||
| − | My attention instead turned to the exploration of the Internet as a tool. As a friend observed recently, I've | + | My attention instead turned to the exploration of the Internet as a tool. As a friend observed recently, 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. |
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| + | I now envisage a separate project to make internet tools more convivial. For example, open source software contains 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. | ||
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| + | But I would also still like to get back to the reparable washing machine.... | ||
