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7 Principles for Convivial Technology - pt. 0/7

Thaddeus Hughes
Feb 7
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Kevin Kelly proposed 6 principles for convivial technology:

  • Cooperation (promotes collaboration)

  • Transparency (clear origins and ownership)

  • Decentralization (distributed ownership, production, and control)

  • Flexibility (I would better call it Extensibility)

  • Redundancy (not being the only option)

  • Efficiency (minimizing impact on ecosystems)

Of course, adding a seventh is appropriate - seven gives us the number of completion.

  • Appropriateness (balance, justice, fittingness)

And, this lets us spell a really lovely acronym: “CRAFTED”.

Good technology is crafted. It is not mass-produced. It is not wound-up and let loose. It isn’t parameters plugged into a neural net which then goes freely, telling us in return exactly what to do. No - good technology is painstakingly crafted by humans.

In these next posts, we’ll focus on each of these principles and how they apply to the development of our technology.

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