Technological Disobedience?

        "Technological Disobedience" is not a very common term to come across in everyday life, especially if you are not in an engineering or design profession, so what is it? Technological Disobedience is the act of transforming a product, of any type, into a new design to be used for a completely new purpose in which the original product was never designed to be used for. This might include changing a single product into a new apparatus or changing multiple products into a single new contraption. Despite the name, Technological disobedience is not illegal or anything to that extent, in fact, it is appreciated as a positive thing in different cultures. It is not commonly seen in the United States but is extremely common in Cuba especially in the 1990's with Ernesto Oroza writing the book and dubbing the name "Technological Disobedience".
          The relationship between "Design" and "Technological Disobedience" can be slightly confusing. Technological Disobedience is taking a design or multiple designs and turning them into a new contraption to be used for a new purpose that the designs were not made to be used as. But in the process of creating the new contraption, the contraption actually becomes a design. So in theory Technological Disobedience is just taking an existing design of something and turning it into a new or different design.
           In America's culture there is not too much use of Technological Disobedience, so I have only really come across "hacks". A "hack" is usually performed by a person called a "hacker" and can be illegal depending on what it is. Many "hacks" consist of manipulating the software or programming of electronics, most commonly seen as "jail-breaking" an Ipod in recent years. I am not sure where the term "jail-breaking" came from but it is usually done in order to get apps and music, that are usually paid for, for free on different devices. In reality it was pretty much stealing from Itunes, but some people also used it to change the device's layout without the intent to download anything for free. People can also "hack game systems to play different games or laptops to perform different functions.

You may also like to watch the videos shown below for an even better understanding:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XS4aueDUg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULQ6196Tfds
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBy5Hb3PWdQ

*I do not condone the term "Redneck" as seen in the second two videos and warn that third video may contain slightly inappropriate content but they were good examples of what Technological Disobedience is.