Wired’s new issue, As a TOOL vol. 45, is out this month. As I read through it, I realized that tools are a means to an end, and that they are inseparable from the end.

There are a few things that caught my personal attention, and I would like to introduce them here.

What is a toilet that requires no water, no electricity, and no plumbing? You might say it’s a botton toilet, but you’d be wrong. The new composting toilet uses biotechnology and is completed by simply placing a tipping agent containing microorganisms underneath. The only element that makes it a toilet is the tipping agent, and it can be placed anywhere and in any size.

This new approach that breaks the conventional wisdom of toilets is truly a toilet as a tool, with elements that can be composited in the manner of LEGO bricks.

We used to think of trash cans as nothing more than a dumping ground, but it seems that is not the case. The most interesting aspect of the tool is that it guarantees “freedom” to a material entity that was previously responsible for it. A refrigerator only needs to be kept cold, and we would be outraged if a computer started dancing. We assume that almost all “tools” today are responsible. This is a hint to help us move from Tool 1.0 to Tool 2.0.

This garbage bin uses biotechnology to decompose garbage by simply filling it with food scraps and putting in a blotting agent. This means that you don’t have to make a trip to the garbage disposal site every time, but simply fill a tube about the size of a 2L plastic bottle in your kitchen. The water that comes out of the garbage can functions as feed for the compost.

This COOL tool, which requires neither electricity nor labor, has tremendous potential.

This section discusses how we should hedge against the hopelessness of climate change, one of the ways is to “turn cities into tools”. Among several examples, he cites water-formed cities, symbiotic cities, nomadic cities, fire-formed cities, tense cities, and interactive cities.

By combining the cycles of nature with technology, dynamic cities are realized. It is something that drives us toward a purpose, creating a new world on earth that we have never seen before.

Other examples include VR as a communication tool, love tools that focus on how to enjoy sexual activity as femtec, nicotine-free healthy cigarettes, underwear for women with excellent water absorption and deodorant properties, and loose silk pants that are unisex.

If you want to write something down in a world where power has run out, ink has dried up, pencil lead has run out, and even paper has disappeared, you can’t stop worrying about how to leave a record in the world, but there is a way. Such tools have also been introduced.

All of them are targeted at human beings, and in the end, the two words “freedom” can be glimpsed beyond their eyes, surrounding the new horizon woven by the tools.

It is hard to imagine where the human race is headed in its quest for freedom, but it is a painful experience to watch the way in which the fat giant of “technology” that has emerged in the modern age is being cared for and decomposed in the context of tools.

The raison d’être of a tool is to be a transit point for what it is supposed to accomplish. They function like APIs that connect purpose to where we are, and they range from the micro to the macro. If one were to set a purpose in terms of collective life, it would be “City as a TOOL,” but in the case of “nail clippers as a TOOL,” only personal desires would be in view.

I thought it would be good to use tools to approach such a micro-purpose.

Wired’s new issue, As a TOOL vol. 45, is out this month. As I read through it, I realized that tools are a means to an end, and that they are inseparable from the end.

There are a few things that caught my personal attention, and I would like to introduce them here.

What is a toilet that requires no water, no electricity, and no plumbing? You might say it’s a botton toilet, but you’d be wrong. The new composting toilet uses biotechnology and is completed by simply placing a tipping agent containing microorganisms underneath. The only element that makes it a toilet is the tipping agent, and it can be placed anywhere and in any size.

This new approach that breaks the conventional wisdom of toilets is truly a toilet as a tool, with elements that can be composited in the manner of LEGO bricks.

We used to think of trash cans as nothing more than a dumping ground, but it seems that is not the case. The most interesting aspect of the tool is that it guarantees “freedom” to a material entity that was previously responsible for it. A refrigerator only needs to be kept cold, and we would be outraged if a computer started dancing. We assume that almost all “tools” today are responsible. This is a hint to help us move from Tool 1.0 to Tool 2.0.

This garbage bin uses biotechnology to decompose garbage by simply filling it with food scraps and putting in a blotting agent. This means that you don’t have to make a trip to the garbage disposal site every time, but simply fill a tube about the size of a 2L plastic bottle in your kitchen. The water that comes out of the garbage can functions as feed for the compost.

This COOL tool, which requires neither electricity nor labor, has tremendous potential.

This section discusses how we should hedge against the hopelessness of climate change, one of the ways is to “turn cities into tools”. Among several examples, he cites water-formed cities, symbiotic cities, nomadic cities, fire-formed cities, tense cities, and interactive cities.

By combining the cycles of nature with technology, dynamic cities are realized. It is something that drives us toward a purpose, creating a new world on earth that we have never seen before.

Other examples include VR as a communication tool, love tools that focus on how to enjoy sexual activity as femtec, nicotine-free healthy cigarettes, underwear for women with excellent water absorption and deodorant properties, and loose silk pants that are unisex.

If you want to write something down in a world where power has run out, ink has dried up, pencil lead has run out, and even paper has disappeared, you can’t stop worrying about how to leave a record in the world, but there is a way. Such tools have also been introduced.

All of them are targeted at human beings, and in the end, the two words “freedom” can be glimpsed beyond their eyes, surrounding the new horizon woven by the tools.

It is hard to imagine where the human race is headed in its quest for freedom, but it is a painful experience to watch the way in which the fat giant of “technology” that has emerged in the modern age is being cared for and decomposed in the context of tools.

The raison d’être of a tool is to be a transit point for what it is supposed to accomplish. They function like APIs that connect purpose to where we are, and they range from the micro to the macro. If one were to set a purpose in terms of collective life, it would be “City as a TOOL,” but in the case of “nail clippers as a TOOL,” only personal desires would be in view.

I thought it would be good to use tools to approach such a micro-purpose.