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African philosophy of technology — Ubuntu and the examined tool

Ubuntu — 'I am because we are' — offers a standard for technology that is neither uncritical adoption nor reflexive rejection: does this tool strengthen the web of relationship, or weaken it? Does it enhance the capacity to be human-in-community, or replace that community with a simulacrum? This is a philosophically complete standard, not a supplement to Western ethics.

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