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I think you’re way off base. For whatever you think of tech, programming and automation are the harbingers of control and consolidation.

by zwkrt 5y ago

rektide 5y ago
why not both? this cynical scared uncertain fearful viewpoint is slamming Pandora's Box closed, trapping hope inside. tech can empower & ennoble. i'm not going to present arguments. open source is amazing & incredible & can help lift us up & keep the door open to the future, to always be adapting. we can rejuvenate ourselves & build new ways of doing things. if we have the will. i do. i think each of us need to assess what we wish to deploy our wills towards, and tech especially open source tech is here to make you super powerful & to reinforce your ability to structure & determine how you want to do things.
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- rektide 5y ago
  oh gee, i missed an opportunity to cite Ursala Franklin's holistic vs prescriptive tech dichotomy! well, let me backfill that a little: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_prescriptive_technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_p... yes the big powers of the world are clutching at tech to control & mechanize. to prescriptize technology, by which they can process human beings. but the flipside is that tech has enormously large heart, of holistic technologies, that humankind leverages rather than is-leveraged-by to expand their potential & power. and i think we have never been better enabled, but that we are struggling to tell the tale, amid so many other losses of control/immediacy/locality. and when we do begin to wade into technogenesis, more often than not we are bombarded by too much choice, too many options, too much responsibility. we are too free, too unable to understand how to steer, where to go. so again technology does not feel like a win, does not feel enobling, even when we are engaging in holistic technology endeavours. but i continue to think the place to focus, the place to think of, the place to move to is 100% in advance. is 100% about focusing on general systems research that is pro-user, pro-observable systems for everyone, pro-malleability. the word user itself needs replacing, needs to be supplanted by more ennobled forms, by software & systems that respect the humans working with them more broadly, by a sense of ownership & control over the everyday technology about us. i ride with hope.

I think you’re way off base. For whatever you think of tech, programming and automation are the harbingers of control and consolidation.

by zwkrt 5y ago

I think you’re way off base. For whatever you think of tech, programming and automation are the harbingers of control and consolidation.

rektide 5y ago

why not both? this cynical scared uncertain fearful viewpoint is slamming Pandora's Box closed, trapping hope inside. tech can empower & ennoble. i'm not going to present arguments. open source is amazing & incredible & can help lift us up & keep the door open to the future, to always be adapting. we can rejuvenate ourselves & build new ways of doing things. if we have the will. i do. i think each of us need to assess what we wish to deploy our wills towards, and tech especially open source tech is here to make you super powerful & to reinforce your ability to structure & determine how you want to do things.

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rektide 5y ago
oh gee, i missed an opportunity to cite Ursala Franklin's holistic vs prescriptive tech dichotomy! well, let me backfill that a little: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_prescriptive_technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Holistic_and_p... yes the big powers of the world are clutching at tech to control & mechanize. to prescriptize technology, by which they can process human beings. but the flipside is that tech has enormously large heart, of holistic technologies, that humankind leverages rather than is-leveraged-by to expand their potential & power. and i think we have never been better enabled, but that we are struggling to tell the tale, amid so many other losses of control/immediacy/locality. and when we do begin to wade into technogenesis, more often than not we are bombarded by too much choice, too many options, too much responsibility. we are too free, too unable to understand how to steer, where to go. so again technology does not feel like a win, does not feel enobling, even when we are engaging in holistic technology endeavours. but i continue to think the place to focus, the place to think of, the place to move to is 100% in advance. is 100% about focusing on general systems research that is pro-user, pro-observable systems for everyone, pro-malleability. the word user itself needs replacing, needs to be supplanted by more ennobled forms, by software & systems that respect the humans working with them more broadly, by a sense of ownership & control over the everyday technology about us. i ride with hope.