Hello all, I was wandering how would a production of things like microchips, solar panels and motors (and other electrical components) be managed in a anarchist, solarpunk society?
Any ideas and further reading will be helpful.
Hello all, I was wandering how would a production of things like microchips, solar panels and motors (and other electrical components) be managed in a anarchist, solarpunk society?
Any ideas and further reading will be helpful.
There’s also room to reconsider what we prioritize in a design. Should simplicity and ease of repair be given a higher priority? Does a blender need a touchscreen interface and multi-layer circuit boards? Or would buttons and straight-through soldering be easier to fix, saving the touchscreen for something that needs it?
Our societies have made have incredible advances in technology, packing processing power (and everything else) into ever-smaller and cheaper packages, and as a result, we’ve put it into everything. I think a more solarpunk world might allocate those resources more carefully. Maybe a phone needs to be dense and small because you carry it around, but the board in a microwave or radio doesn’t need to be.
I sound a bit like my older relatives talking about cars here, but electronics from thirty or fourty years ago I can fix with some googling, a soldering iron, and a new capacitor bought off eBay. To me, that’s more solarpunk.