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I think humanity has to be up to keep trying, has to have some exposure to a direct & personal spirit of adventure. Tech & computing is that for many, but alas
by jauntywundrkind 3y ago
I think humanity has to be up to keep trying, has to have some exposure to a direct & personal spirit of adventure. Tech & computing is that for many, but alas it feels like it's slipping ever more into the esoteric as productization & industrialization of our connective systems advaces. We need humanity inspired to be on long voyages, to be iterating & trying & working anarchistically towards collective betterment; open possibility. We need to inspire each other to keep pushing, to finding better. Jaunty: adventure, wonder: what we can make, kind: how we should be disposed. It's all loose and a jumble of things, barely strung together, but my name is about this hope to keep the flame of hackeress burning.
In the end, I just want to see things going directionally the right direction, or at least sustaining. To me, tech has huge power, but it's trapped on the wrong side of an artificed & created interface rather than melding; few get a real peek at the soul of the machine or perch to dabble. I think we can and must do better. I think coexistence has had some interesting starts but has faded out of view, especially as the tech colossuses have grown to such titaneous size.
Trying to at least make it feel like humanity at large is in the loop with tech matters a lot to me. I want so much for a thriving hacker ethos to have some strong vital camps that seem like they can survive, go Forward in time. The future doesn't have to be this utopian system, it doesn't all have to be the good I believe in, but I believe this is the camp where dynamics & vitality & aliveness of our species future march has its core, and that spark needs to be cherished and kept alive.
There's a lot of worldly problems about. But having a communicative connectivity that is ours, that we can iterate on, that society can itself grow & bend: that's the newest biggest hope I see on the planet, and starting there seems like what we can do to let so many other great things be begot & accelerate.