Open Technology

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This is a paradigm where knowhow for producing things (technologies, materials, products, machines, etc) is available for replication. As of 2023, this has not occurred on earth: technology for producing things is proprietary as companies do not share such knowhow. There is an appearance of open technology from the internet, where various websites such as Thingiverse or Instructables claim to reveal open knowhow - however such knowhow is of little economic significance and only aggravates the situation by producing a generally-accepted illusion that technology is open. Thereby, the movement towards open production is hampered.