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Computer science is currently subservient to an economic climate in which the only viable business is one that scales revenue without scaling labor. That's the
by add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
Computer science is currently subservient to an economic climate in which the only viable business is one that scales revenue without scaling labor. That's the bitter lesson.
- PaulHoule 2y agoBut isn't that the story of technology and civilization? Hunter-Gatherers produced no surplus and couldn't support a complex and unequal society. Early agriculture could support a pyramid, but not very high. It used to be almost everyone worked in agriculture, now about 1% does, so the others are free to do something else. Prior to the microprocessor making a computer required manual assembly of thousands of parts, early microprocessors contained thousands of parts manufactured by a small number of photographic and chemical steps, and the number of parts has grown into the billions without the number of steps expanding millions of times.
- rangestransform 2y agoImproving labour productivity is good, actually