@neauoire

I think many machinists would agree just partially: a shop-made tool is very different from a bought one, even if often there is a tendency to over-engineer them in ways not even imagined on the commercial products.

See, for example, the microprocessors used to thread on a lathe.

@neauoire stirrer rules :anarchism:

@neauoire ça fit bin avec mon pouet pinné:

https://mamot.fr/@lutzray/100586076191335859

@neauoire this is exactly what happened with front-end frameworks in web development.

@neauoire Illich coined "Radical monopoly" too, wherein a technology is adopted to such an extent that those without the means to access or use it end up being excluded from society. For example, access bank and governmental services via smartphones or digital appliances, automotive infrastructure, etc.

@neauoire I highly recommend Andrew Sage’s recent video on this very topic https://youtu.be/bP2rObVK1zgx

@neauoire didn't read the whole page, but that won't stop me :-) do you know the book Technopoly by Neil Postman? Subtitle is "The Surrender of Culture to Technology". Can recommend!

@neauoire This calls to mind Ursula Franklin’s CBC lectures on The Real World of Technology. I started on a close reading of them a few months ago, annotating them and everything. Thank you for the reminder to get back to that.