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auth-name : noffle tag : holistic prescriptive unix web distributed node

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unix & holistic technologies

Every technology lies on a spectrum: prescriptive technologies, like car assembly lines, have dependence on large non-individual organizational structures in order to function; while holistic tech is self-reliant and depends on little, like a personal garden. Or a unix program. Most things lie somewhere in between.

What the consequences of a society heavily dependent on prescriptive technologies? What is its cost of adoption? Where can freedom be found in taking control of the toolchain? Let's look at where the unix philosophy and the web fit in.