Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
A provocative title, indeed, but the reality is a bit more practical. The tool in this photo is a castrator, for mules, horses, donkeys, and bulls...am I missing anything? No, not humans, not in this day and age, at least.
This is an interesting tool, it may be something that is commonly [...]
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Last Friday Bolivian President Evo Morales, accompanied by Marcelo Claure CEO of Brightstar Corporation, announced that Bolivia would provide a laptop for every child in the country. With Bolivia's entrance into the One Laptop Per Child Project, I've started to think seriously about some of the limitations of this initiative.
On the very same [...]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
It has been almost two years since I first began advocating for adapting an Open Source model to the development of Appropriate Technology. Naturally, my ideas did not develop in a vacuum, and a number of other groups were already working on the same concept, thinking the same thoughts, and [...]
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
As we have seen, technocracy meant the concentration of capital and its associated productive capacity in the hands of the "literate". The consequences of this historical process were negative for democracy and community autonomy. Now, because globalization is connecting the world's communities to a number of inherently unstable lifeline [...]
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
Agricultural Innovations has several new content items available that might of interest to readers of this blog. First, in the spirit of Open Source applied to all the projects at agroinnovations.com, the group has published a document that focuses on the transfer of appropriate technology within a social
and cultural context. The document proposes the application [...]
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