Hopelessly idealistic?
227: Design criteria??
     [legality, participatroy, decentralization, democratic: community, work, politics, self-governance; perpetuation of self-sustaining ecology.]
--- Hidden costs of technology? [alienation, >inequality, community disintegration, political disempowerment}
225. "Technological design and practice should be democratized." and compatible with very "strong democracy."
     Examples.
     A. integration/cohousing/ commons, conviviality, cooperation.
     B. non linear; teams responsible for products
     C. [Power] degender Technology: isolation; stereotyped female
     D. > local autonomy and therefore local participation.
especially protect environment.
     E. a local economy of self-reliance; (almost) break Walmarts!; beware the mantra of "international economic competitiveness"
--- neighborhood scale technology: too subversive?
--- greater popular involvement in all domains of technological decision making; decentralize!!
234 Multiple goals
-*- MacKenzie Inquiry, 1970s --> 'laypeople can produce useful social and technical information." [cf. also Krimsky on Cambr. DNA council; and CHD Oregon; Dutch science shops. Amish Screening]
--- 4 examples of Participation in R&D&Design: UTOPIA - Sweden; Louvain Medical School Zone Sociale Architecture; feminist GABe self-cleaning house; barrier-free design.
--- Broadens the menu, but increasing opposition: Moral arguments.
     Non market criteria; holistic concerns.
--- Dilemma: which to stress? economics for short run victory or ideals for long term??