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(1) This is great. (2) Political economy is a much bigger issue right now than technology. Most of what we need to do is deploy, and the tech we have is good e
by spenrose 11y ago
(1) This is great.
(2) Political economy is a much bigger issue right now than technology. Most of what we need to do is deploy, and the tech we have is good enough for that.
(3) Low-hanging fruit for self-identified "Technologists" is to reconsider some of the blind spots caused by their social identities. David Roberts explains:
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9214015/tech-nerds-politics http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9214015/tech-nerds-politics
- spenrose 11y agoAlso, I'd like to see "Tools for problem finding" augmented with "tools for POLICY problem finding". The state governments of California and New York, for example, do amazing work transforming the big beast of legacy systems. Bret cites some of the former's, and notes the specific example of CAISOs plea for grid storage. Better visibility of techies into policy could help a lot. Dave Roberts has done great work on this: http://vox.com/authors/david-roberts http://vox.com/authors/david-roberts