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tools turn everything we do into consumers and clients of services
only thing we can do is pay for things
don't know how to cook or build a house because you can just pay for it even burying your own dead
very against professionalisation because they're too efficient and it makes people need that more and more
a lot of what Illich is saying sounds like its to go back or be primitive but its more that we should understand the past and realise the direction we are heading are that we have more and more powerful tools that only some people have control over and maybe we shouldn't make these tools over
how we're building what we're building - humane relationship with technology, really look to the simpler ways of doing things in the past and apply them to how we might work with this
tech to make us feel good rather than detract for it
working in web3 is beautiful in many ways but it can feel like living in a casino, so much happening all the time and so much opportunnity. intense roller coaster of emotions can come with this experience.
might be helpful for us to talk honestly about these experiecnes and apply to what we're building
his concern - tech we make makes us more like robots and machines and in the way we think about the world and ourselves
service that removes something we can do ourselves removes our ability to be human in the sense that it removes our sense to deal with it.
the more a microscope or telescope is there we stop relying on our eyes anymore. you can say that for VR a lot of these technologies make us forget that we actually live in a body
the idea that we are limited, that we are 'creatures' that don't recognise that we are not gods and cannot do everything. by acknowledging our limits we can better change things
the tool outsources you so you don't feel like you need to help other people but you end up going to someone else