> My belief is that tech necessarily does the same thing [, homegenize people]. Great call out! This is very near the core of my technospiritual struggles, the

> My belief is that tech necessarily does the same thing [, homegenize people]. Great call out! This is very near the core of my technospiritual struggles, the issue of tech to me. First, I'd say it's important to open the framing some! Ursala Franklin contrasts perscriptive vs holistic technologies, tech which sets fixed order versus tech that expands the capability of people & craftsmem. Tech can expand not constrain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_prescriptive_technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_p... > Everyone in your app has permissions defined by some enum, a limited number of actions available, content moderation machinery. Alas, yes; most tech is of this variety! There were some very active submissions recently on Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers which is about exactly the opposite, about tech for personal & small scale itches, made as you like it. https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40633029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40633029 322 points, 40 days, 173 comments > Tech makes our levers to move the Earth more efficient, but at the cost of a lack of diversity of thought, lifestyle, and value. The largely unexplored alternate is malleable systems, is general systems research, rather than letting capitalism take the reign & crank out endless apps at ever more massified cloudified portions & scale. We can elect to make software soft & participative. https://malleable.systems https://malleable.systems