High Tech Self-Providing

High Tech Self-Provisioning is a term coined by Fritjof Bergmann and key to the concept of new work. The idea of an economy based on the commons, i.e. on a high degree of self-organisation or self-governance doesn't mean: going back to the stone age. Nor that everybody has to bake its own bread. The division of meaningful work will persist. As does the need for high productivity.

But we don't need to pay the same price for high productivity we usually pay: stress, boredom or alienation (think of assembly lines). Self-determined, "minimal" production at high tech level became possible via a new generation of technologies: rapid prototyping technologies, 3-D printers etc.