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Democratic technics

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Manual labor using a wheelbarrow.

Democratic technics is a term coined by sociologist and philosopher of technology Lewis Mumford to describe the integration of machines and manual labor for small-scale production. It opposes authoritarian technics, which is centralized by definition and focused on control.

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