The Ease Trap
Beware of the ease trap. Easier and better are not the same thing and yet our focus as a civilisation seems to be to …
Technology
Technical and Cultural Products
There is a distinction between technical and cultural products. Of course, you could argue that all products are part of the culture, but I …
Convivial tools
Convivial tools include technologies, techniques and institutions that allow people to thrive. Unfortunately, people are losing touch with their innate productive capacities and are …
Big is Ugly
“Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are …