Only when we stop looking at male roles and forms of power as the norm and begin to look at female arrangements and perceive them as equally valid an… - Ivan Illich

The operation of a peer-matching network would be simple. The user would identify himself by name and address and describe the activity for which he sought a peer. A computer would send him back the names and addresses of all those who had inserted the same description. It is amazing that such a simple utility has never been used on a broad scale for publicly valued activity

Rodeado por herramientas todopoderosas, el hombre queda reducido a ser instrumento de sus instrumentos.

The computer is credited with the capacity to create unsuspected amounts of busywork. We are straight on our way towards an energy-obsessed low energy society in a world that worships work but has nothing for people to do.