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<font size="5">'''Convivial Tools Database'''</font><br>
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The following narrative presents the main themes of this website in more-or-less chronological order.
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This website is a database about people, concepts, projects and websites related to [[Convivial Tools]], a concept defined by [[Ivan Illich]] in his 1973 book [[Tools for Conviviality]]. This site is a work in progress, and some sections are more complete than others.
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See the [[Site Map]] for the list of Main Categories, or go to [[:Category:Root]]. See also the companion website the [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools Encyclopedia].
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==[[:Category:Historical Roots]]==
 
==[[:Category:Historical Roots]]==
The ideas put developed by [[Ivan Illich]] in [[Tools for Conviviality]] follow on a long tradition of criticism of industrial technology and of a search for viable alternatives. The [[Historical Roots]] of the idea of [[Convivial Tools]] extend back to the eighteenth century French Enlightenment and the philosophy of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]. Twentieth-century precursers include philosophers such as [[Lewis Mumford]] and [[Jacques Ellul]], and counter-culture movements such as [[Whole Earth]] and [[Appropriate Technology]].
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The ideas developed by [[Ivan Illich]] in [[Tools for Conviviality]] follow on a long tradition of criticism of industrial technology and of a search for viable alternatives. The [[Historical Roots]] of the idea of [[Convivial Tools]] extend back to the eighteenth century French Enlightenment and the philosophy of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]. Twentieth-century precursers include philosophers such as [[Lewis Mumford]] and [[Jacques Ellul]], and counter-culture movements such as [[Whole Earth]] and [[Appropriate Technology]].
  
 
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What is the web evolving towards? Some say that [[Web 3.0]] will be a [[Semantic Web]], providing machine-facilitated understanding of information to help users perform more productive [[Data Mining]] for their own personal profit.
 
What is the web evolving towards? Some say that [[Web 3.0]] will be a [[Semantic Web]], providing machine-facilitated understanding of information to help users perform more productive [[Data Mining]] for their own personal profit.
  
==About This Website==
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This website operates under [[MediaWiki]] software and thus has the potential to be a [[Wiki]]. However, to avoid continual hassles with spammers, the site is configured so that only WikiSysop can create new accounts, and no new accounts have been created. This website is thus the single-handed creation of one person.
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For more information about the site itself, see [[About this Site]] and [[Road Maps]].
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See also the [[ConvivialTools Blog List]].
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Latest revision as of 11:57, 14 July 2009