New Work Technologies

In the last twenty years New Work has identified a multitude of extremely various technologies whose common element is that they all support the possibility of a Base Economy - i.e. the possibility of a very extensive (80%) economic self-reliance. What makes any technology a “New Work” technology is its ability to contribute to an independent, self-providing, and enhanced quality of life for a community. Examples include:

"I have tried to evolve an organically integrated set of policy proposals that would have the power not only to stop the appalling deterioration of our country – her accelerating descent into a pit of cynicism, passivity, violence and despair – but that, instead, would define a step by step process leading us back to the path of our original mission: to becoming the greatest force on the globe in the struggle for a more humane, a more intelligent and a more life-giving culture."

- Frithjof Bergmann