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Better: Start forming a coalition of private individuals and companies, and use that group to hire lobbyists. The game is broken, but you can't win if you refus
by ori_b 14y ago
Better: Start forming a coalition of private individuals and companies, and use that group to hire lobbyists. The game is broken, but you can't win if you refuse to play.
- mindslight 14y agoYou can certainly enjoy your life a lot more if you take your ball, go home, and play with your computer. Who knows, computers may even turn out to be popular in a decade's time.
- nitrogen 14y agoI've come to the conclusion that mainstreaming a technology results in the technology conforming to the mainstream, rather than the mainstream adopting the interests of the early adopters of the technology.
- rayiner 14y agoWhich is precisely how it should be. Technology is for the use and convenience of the masses--it's not a vector for political minorities to spread their ideological viewpoints. My mom doesn't need to listen to Vint Cerf's politics to use the TCP/IP to trade pictures of my kid with my wife's mom.
- mindslight 14y agoYes, clearly the capabilities of technology shouldn't inform people's philosophies. They should continue to receive their views via mass media social pressure instead.
- rayiner 14y agoThe capability of technology should inform people's philosophies, not the personal beliefs of the creators.
- mindslight 14y agoHowever, the personal beliefs of the creators inform the design of the technology. And the resulting technology's capabilities can render this moment's squabbling moot.