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| A tool is an object that can help an individual to extend its physical abilities, outsource a thinking process, or modify its surrounding. Tools are often referred to as objects that humans use in a physical manner, but their scope can be understood in a much broader sense. In the essay [[Tools for Conviviality]] Ivan Illich understands tools as: | A tool is an object that can help an individual to extend its physical abilities, outsource a thinking process, or modify its surrounding. Tools are often referred to as objects that humans use in a physical manner, but their scope can be understood in a much broader sense. In the essay [[Tools for Conviviality]] Ivan Illich understands tools as: | ||
| - | physical hardware, such as a hammer, a pencil, or a broom; | + | physical hardware, such as a [[hammer_handles|hammer]], a pencil, or a broom; |
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| tangible structures, such as a chair or table, a building, roads or a network for electrical power supply; | tangible structures, such as a chair or table, a building, roads or a network for electrical power supply; | ||
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| intangible structures, such as words or language, software, an educational institution, | intangible structures, such as words or language, software, an educational institution, | ||
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| The relation between an individual and a tool is often affected by the [[law of the instrument]] and strongly influenced by the tool's characteristics and the [[energy in-/ | The relation between an individual and a tool is often affected by the [[law of the instrument]] and strongly influenced by the tool's characteristics and the [[energy in-/ | ||
| For Ivan Illich tools "are intrinsic to social relationships. An individual relates oneself in action to one's society through the use of tools that one actively masters, or by which one is passively acted upon. To the degree one masters one's tools, one can invest the world with one's meaning; to the degree that one is mastered by one's tools, the shape of the tool determines one's self-image." | For Ivan Illich tools "are intrinsic to social relationships. An individual relates oneself in action to one's society through the use of tools that one actively masters, or by which one is passively acted upon. To the degree one masters one's tools, one can invest the world with one's meaning; to the degree that one is mastered by one's tools, the shape of the tool determines one's self-image." | ||