Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich on the proper use of technology to reclaim agency and practical knowledge for the average citizen. The main TLDR; science and technology with their panoply of elite controlled knowledge and procedures have brought us so far, but cannot take us much further.
conviviality means ‘alive with’ Ivan Illich on the proper use of technology to reclaim agency and practical knowledge for the average citizen. The main TLDR; science and technology with their panoply of elite controlled knowledge and procedures have brought us so far, but cannot take us much further. They are, in fact, damaging as we approach crisis. These tools suppress other ideas and systems of knowledge and concentrate control of knowledge and power in the few and the elite. As such, these tools can only provide a limited and very unsatisfactory set of answers to how we may live meaningful
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