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"...if globalization gets replaced by localization. The result would be revolution that contains, rather than replaces, all of the prior revolutions. Industrial production would merge with personal expression, which would merge with digital design, to bring common sense and sensibility to creation and application of advanced technologies. Just as accumulated experience has found democracy to work better than monarchy, this would be a future based on widespread access to the means for invention rather than one based on technocracy." | "...if globalization gets replaced by localization. The result would be revolution that contains, rather than replaces, all of the prior revolutions. Industrial production would merge with personal expression, which would merge with digital design, to bring common sense and sensibility to creation and application of advanced technologies. Just as accumulated experience has found democracy to work better than monarchy, this would be a future based on widespread access to the means for invention rather than one based on technocracy." | ||
(http://www.agroblogger.com/tag/appropriate-technology) | (http://www.agroblogger.com/tag/appropriate-technology) | ||
=More Information= | |||
See our entry on the [[Law of Locality]] | |||
Revision as of 02:36, 6 August 2007
= producing closer to the home of individuals and communities
Concept should be understood in the context as a reaction to Globalization which distances production and consumption.
Citation
Neil Gershenfeld:
"...if globalization gets replaced by localization. The result would be revolution that contains, rather than replaces, all of the prior revolutions. Industrial production would merge with personal expression, which would merge with digital design, to bring common sense and sensibility to creation and application of advanced technologies. Just as accumulated experience has found democracy to work better than monarchy, this would be a future based on widespread access to the means for invention rather than one based on technocracy." (http://www.agroblogger.com/tag/appropriate-technology)
More Information
See our entry on the Law of Locality
Key Book to Read
Localization: A Global Manifesto. Colin Hines. Earthscan, 2000
Going Local. Michael Shuman.