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Tools: Craft Tools: & Industrial Tools:
"Our tooled extensions of man breaks down into two very definite classes: I call one class the craft tools and the other I call the industrial tools. Under craft tools I include all the tools that can be invented by one man starting nakedly in the wilderness, with no advice nor informative accounts of their experiences from anybody else. All the great heaps of artifacts discovered around the world by archaeologists and anthropologists are filled with tools that could be made by one man starting nakedly in the wilderness and developed by him only from his personal experience.
“The industrial tools I define as all the tools that cannot be produced by one man. I’ll give you as an example the large ocean steamship such as the Queen Mary. The idea of one man producing it or operating it would be preposterous. . . The first industrial tool was the spoken word. . . The craft tools are related only to single human beings and their very local and personal experience, their short lives and the particular area of resources into which they happen to be born. The industrial tools relate to our compounding of all experiences of all men anywhere, and all the finite resources of our total Spaceship Earth.”
