¶ Tools: Craft Tools & Industrial Tools
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Tools: Craft Tools & Industrial Tools:
"By craft tools I refer to all the tools that can be produced by one man starting nakedly in the wilderness without any information or aid from anybody else. So the stone becomes a tool; the stick becomes a tool. Then man makes a spear and it is even more effective-- and he keeps modifying. These things the individual can develop out of his own personal experience, and he is prone to do so out of his own personal experience. . . .
“With craft tools you have a very limited man, limited to where his own feet will take him, limited by his unevenly distributed resources. He is very limited in total experience and in time and capability. The industrial is quite the other way: it represents the integrated information of all men and all time.”
¶ Citations
- COMMITMENT TO HUMANITY, p. 32, May’70
