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It's not the programmers. It's the whole Internet waking up. It's the people living and breathing the Internet who want the status quo politicians to stop tryin
by nextparadigms 15y ago
It's not the programmers. It's the whole Internet waking up. It's the people living and breathing the Internet who want the status quo politicians to stop trying to mess with it. And the vast majority of them are not programmers.
- wladimir 15y agoIndeed. It's not about (power-hungry) programmers. Programmers are important right now because they make things possible, but in the end it's about humans connecting to humans in ways, and at a scale, never before possible. People are suddenly connected across borders, bypassing and outmaneuvering the old, slow, hierarchical institutions. Though I don't think traditional politics will go away any time soon, this is bound to have far-ranging unexpected effects in the future (what we're seeing right now is only the beginning).