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Ludites.

• Piskvorrr 8y ago
  Nope. Luddites (sic) were a social movement, and a pushback against a better, more efficient system. Whereas pushback against a system that's built on hope and today's slapdash software standards, essentially "you can't make an omelette without killing a few people, but it will be far more awesomer in Our Bright Future, if only you let us run the show" is somewhat different. Your analogy leaks all over the place.
  • ainiriand 8y ago
    I think that people working close to the steam weaver could have been thinking the same about the eggs and the omelette. And yet here we are. Software is a tool. A really diverse tool. And you can have it written in may different ways; you can have Wordpress or any other buggy system or you can have the software on board of the Voyager probes. There are standards that can be enforced and new 'unknown unknowns' to solve but the technology is here to stay, Luddite.
    • oldgradstudent 8y ago
      The self-driving technology is not here to stay. It's not here at all.
    • Piskvorrr 8y ago
      And of course, anybody who doesn't applaud frenetically (mind you: not "who opposes"; merely "not enthusiastic enough") is lumped with the Enemy. Ad hominems mean "I have run out of arguments, now on to insults." Also, can I borrow your crystal ball, if you know that this technology will prevail? I hope you haven't been predicting Betamax with that one... As for "standards that can be enforced" - yes, that's where the industry is headed, but we haven't seen a Therac-class disaster in our generation yet. We'll get there...in both cases.