Victor Papanek's Design for the Real World [0] is a foundational text in the area of Appropriate Technology (cited here by others).

Essential reading alongside the Illich (also linked by others), Pye's Nature and Art of Workmanship [1], and Winner's "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" [2] for those interested in.... Let's call it an ecology OF technology?

And also the Papanek was probably the book that felt most like a forbidden text in undergraduate architecture school...

[0] https://archive.org/details/designforrealwor0000papa/page/n6...

[1] https://archive.org/details/natureartofwor00pyed

[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652