Mind Amplifier: Howard Rheingold And The Value Of Convivial Tools - Forbes - 0 views
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his is a helpful thought in a society that has placed more attention on the fact of digital technologies (the new iPhone!) than on what we do with them
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but all technologies, to some degree or another, are enmeshed in what Langdon Winner calls ‘regimes,
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Design of tools has—as Illich pointed out—been accomplished in the absence of any consideration of their effects on social, cognitive, and political regimes. Designers can be better educated. And so can the users of their tools
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