Difference between revisions of "Convivial Tools"

The [[Thematic Topics]] presented on this website illustrate, each in its own way, the idea of "Convivial Tools." For example the [[Hacker Generation]] that invented the personal computer in the nineteen-seventies was a community that developed the tools that they themselves used. The more recent [[Free and Open Source Software]] movements are also examples of community tool development. The participatory culture of the [[Web 2.0]] is the latest manifestation of a tendancy towards increased control of users over their tools, reversing the long historical trend of personal loss of control over the complex machinery of industrial society.