Uncategorized – Street Use https://kk.org/streetuse This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity. In short -- stuff as it is actually used, and not how its creators planned on it being used. As William Gibson said, "The street finds its own uses for things." I welcome suggestions of links, and contributions from others to include in this compendium. -- KK Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:49:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.12 The Virtues of Time Over Money https://kk.org/streetuse/the-virtues-of-time-over-money/ https://kk.org/streetuse/the-virtues-of-time-over-money/#respond Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:49:34 +0000 Continue reading →]]> The Brazilian newspaper A Tarde interviewed me about Street Use. Their question: does the street use of technology impact the poor differently than the rich?

My answer: “Everyone tries to personalize technology. The poor have time but no money; and the rich have money but no time. So the poor use their time to modify technology and the rich use money to personalize it. I always find what people do with time more interesting than what they do with money.”

Below: A door I saw in India made with rough wood in a mud-brick house. No money, lots of time.

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