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FLOSS power the world IT essentially, and was born distributed, with typically 100% remote developers since most projects do not even have a forma HQ. Density
by kkfx 3y ago
FLOSS power the world IT essentially, and was born distributed, with typically 100% remote developers since most projects do not even have a forma HQ.
Density for IT is the least thing we need, communication, like classic Usenet, yes, but not physical density.
For economy in general beware: economy of scale works with a good but not too much density. If you densify too much the model collapse being unable to evolve at reasonable costs. Nowadays since we dream a near future with cars substituted by flying drones the right density is less than any modern city typical density and the right scale is being spread over vast territory.
Only few, industrial, activities demand higher density and localization.
- pas 3y agonah, density and scale go hand-in-hand, but broken ass-backwards governance prevents adoption of techniques appropriate for the density to provide the services at scale. it's ridiculous that we are still not building housing and transportation at scale. the automotive industry can churn out complete series of vintages faster than the construction industry sends an email. housing is still this "my house my castle", which is fine until everyone starts to fight for, conquer and eventually annex the neighborhood. the same sorry ass techniques are used to build housing as half a century ago, when total population was a billion less, when not 70% of the population lived in cities, and so on. keeping housing density very high leaves space for other things around housing, eg. hospitals, schools, or ... ugh. parks. makes a lot of mixed development suddenly becomes economically worthwhile.