I wonder what Illich would think of these. I think these are more convivial than
not, now that they're in a more affordable price range. Hackerspaces especially
have the feel of convivialization, because when they're Open, they have the
tendency to reduce the need for specialization and such by not only making the
tool available to all financial levels, but also eliminating the need for
controlled specialized knowledge.
But this raises some questions: many of the tools we use in hackerspaces DO have
some amount of constraints here: a novice who breaks the only 3D printer in the
space makes it unusable for everyone and thus is a thing we wish to avoid. Some