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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The last term from the LIMITS archive which is important to mention is collapse
There are some software and hardware projects that could be considered collapse informatics, even though they do not use the term themselves and might not apply all characteristics described by Penzenstadler et al <sup>1</sup>. Collapse OS is a Forth operating system and collection of tools to preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse <sup>3</sup>. Collapse OS, as the name suggests, is only an OS and requires very creative post-collapse coding in order to become useful. On the other side of the spectrum is disaster.radio, that promises a disaster-resilient off-grid, solar-powered, long-range mesh network built on free, open source software and affordable, open hardware <sup>4</sup>. It offers a fully functional communication system, but relies on a substantial amount of custom hardware and even 3D printed casing and contains patented and proprietary components, which might not only prove counterproductive in case of an actual disaster, but also begs the question for who this project is affordable. Whatever the shape of the system, what is most interesting is to consider the current state of our planet as one of collapse already, so we can make use of the more radical methods and tools described by Penzenstadler et al. today.
-<sup>1 Birgit Penzenstadler, Ankita Raturi, Debra J. Richardson, M Six Silberman, and Bill Tomlinson. 2015. Collapse (& Other Futures) Software Engineering. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computing within Limits. ACM, Irvine California, 1-3.</sup><br>
+<sup>1 Birgit Penzenstadler, Ankita Raturi, Debra J. Richardson, M Six Silberman, and Bill Tomlinson. 2015. Collapse (& Other Futures) Software Engineering. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computing within Limits. ACM, Irvine California, 1-3.</sup>
<sup>2 Barath Raghavan and Justin Ma. 2011. Networking in the Long Emergency. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Green Netowrking (GreenNets '11). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 37-42. https://doi.org/10.1145/2018536.2018545</sup>
-<sup>3 Collapse OS. 2021. <https://collapseos.org></sup><br>
+<sup>3 Collapse OS. 2021. <https://collapseos.org></sup>
<sup>4 Disaster.radio. 2020. <https://disaster.radio></sup>
diff --git a/Liberatory_Technology.mdwn b/Liberatory_Technology.mdwn
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Liberatory technology was described by Murray Bookchin in his 1965 essay Towards a Liberatory Technology <sup>1</sup>. Bookchin describes the possibility of an environmentally-friendly technology, which would "make man’s dependence upon the natural world a visible and living part of his culture". Bookchin envisaged small communities integrated into the natural environment and using small-scale technologies which permit decentralisation and autonomy. His article succinctly expresses the vision of a utopian ecological lifestyle, which later became associated with the term "alternative technology" and the Undercurrents magazine in the UK. The main characteristic of liberatory technology, in line with Bookchin’s anarchist politics, is decentralisation, in order to avoid centralised economic and administrative control. It is powered by renewable energy, non-coercive, adapted to specific local needs, small scale, multipurpose in order to avoid underuse and shared among communities. In Ecology and Revolutionary Thought, Bookchin points to the value of organic differentiation, not mechanical standardization, for balance in society and nature alike. His view of technology reflects this, and resonates with current philosophies on sustainable design, such as that of Arturo Escobar as expressed in Designs for the Pluriverse <sup>2</sup>, and resonates with the characteristics of [[Benign Computing]] and [[Permacomputing]].
-<sup>1 Murray Bookchin. 1986. Towards a Liberatory Technology. In Post-Scarcity Anarchism. Black Rose Books, Montreal, 105–162.<br></sup>
+<sup>1 Murray Bookchin. 1986. Towards a Liberatory Technology. In Post-Scarcity Anarchism. Black Rose Books, Montreal, 105–162.</sup>
<sup>2 Arturo Escobar. 2018. Designs for the Pluriverse. Duke University Press, Durham.</sup>
diff --git a/Permacomputing.mdwn b/Permacomputing.mdwn
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The text is incredibly rich and detailed, so we’ll only highlight a few characteristics. Instead of one dominant technology and linear progress, permacomputing aims at a diversity of approaches developing at all levels. It is enmeshed in culture, because people have a deep connection to technology, beyond the tool, as part of art, ecology, philosophy and history. Permacomputing is accountable, it only does heavy computation if this saves resources elsewhere and uses automation to save humans from repetitive and time consuming tasks when it requires little energy from computers. It values maintenance and encourages programmers to refactor and rewrite programs to keep them small and efficient, instead of counting on Moore’s law to compensate for software bloat, something also covered by Barath Raghavan and Daniel Pargman in Refactoring Society: Systems Complexity in an Age of Limits <sup>2</sup>. Instead of planned obsolescence, permacomputing practices planned longevity, reuse and repair of existing technology and approaches waste as a resource. Just like all other terms, it points to decentralisation and modularity so that it can be adapted to suit local community needs. Permacomputing contributes to a commons by placing technology in the public domain and promotes the sharing of resources. The term got picked up by other artists, programmers and activists, such as by the programmer of Ariane, a Gemini protocol browser for Android, and by the maker of the solar powered Leaf server, but has yet to become more widely used. Similar to [[Liberatory Technology]] and Illich’s Tools for Conviviality <sup>3</sup>, the term encompasses political ideas on the role of technology in society, but next to that describes how these ideas might be applied in contemporary design and practice.
-<sup>1 Ville-Matias Heikkilä. 2020. Permacomputing. <http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing.html><br></sup>
-<sup>2 Barath Raghavan and Daniel Pargman. 2016. Refactoring Society: Systems Complexity in an Age of Limits. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computing within Limits. ACM, Irvine California, 1–7. <https://doi.org/10.1145/2926676.2926677><br></sup>
+<sup>1 Ville-Matias Heikkilä. 2020. Permacomputing. <http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing.html></sup>
+<sup>2 Barath Raghavan and Daniel Pargman. 2016. Refactoring Society: Systems Complexity in an Age of Limits. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computing within Limits. ACM, Irvine California, 1–7. <https://doi.org/10.1145/2926676.2926677></sup>
<sup>3] Ivan Illich. 1973. Tools for Conviviality. Harper & Row, New York.</sup>
