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@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ philosophical ones, so feel free to disagree with them or refactor them.
* As an extension of "amplify awareness": Don't hide information!
* Keep everything open, modifiable and flexible.
* Share your [[source code|FLOSS]] and design philosophies.
-* Make the computer visualize/auralize its internal state as well as whatever it knows about the state of its physical environment. Regard this visualization/auralization as a background landscape: facilitate observation but don't steal the attention. Also, don't use too much computing resources for this (updating a full-screen background landscape tens of times per second is an overkill).
+* Make the computer visualize/auralize its internal state as well as whatever it knows about the state of its physical environment. Regard this visualization/auralization as a background landscape: facilitate observation but don't steal the attention. Also, don't use too much computing resources for this (updating a full-screen background landscape tens of times per second is a total overkill).
## Respond to changes
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## Everything has a place
-* Be part of your local energy/matter circulations, ecosystems and cultures. Cherish locality, avoid centralization. Strengthen the local roots of the technology and use and create.
+* Be part of your local energy/matter circulations, ecosystems and cultures. Cherish locality, avoid centralization. Strengthen the local roots of the technology you use and create.
* While operating locally and at present, be aware of the entire world-wide context your work takes place in. This includes the historical context several decades to the past and the future. Understanding the past(s) is the key for envisioning the possible futures.
-* Nothing is "universal". Even computers, "universal calculators" that can be readapted to any task, are full of quirks that stem from the cultures that created them. Don't take them as the only way things may be.
+* Nothing is "universal". Even computers, "universal calculators" that can be readapted to any task, are full of quirks that stem from the cultures that created them. Don't take them as the only way things can be, or as the most "rational" or "advanced" way.
* Every system, no matter how ubiquitous or "universal" it is, is only a tiny speckle in a huge ocean of possibilities. Try to understand the entire possibility space in addition to the individual speckles you have concrete experience about.
* **Appreciate diversity**, avoid [[monoculture]]. But remember that [[standard]]s also have an important place.
* Strict utilitarianism impoverishes. Uselessness also has an important place, so appreciate it.
