I am long overdue in this commitment, but I am finally writing a roughly 15 page chapter about the intersection of political activism with the roles of mission-critical engineering in the tech sector, and I am putting words to paper that I have needed to say for a long time.
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So much of this is things I need to tell myself some six months later.
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In tech, we are already at the place where broken things cost millions to billions of dollars in lost productivity and revenue. Abstractly, that translates to lives.
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But we are merely a handful of years from the point where those same issues lead to actual, measurable lives being lost. The more we IoT our infrastructure, the closer we are to putting the internet in critical components. Cars, medical devices, power transmission...
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It's taken us 20 years of internet technologies to get to a place where the impact of things breaking can largely be mitigated. But we're starting from scratch with embedded devices.
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Imagine a patch bricking ambulances across the country. Or smart cars when people are evacuating a destructive storm or wildfire.
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This isn't fearmongering. Software has already killed people. Actually software has been killing people for about 40 years. But we're on the verge of that being able to happen at scale.
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Also like, lol I'm writing about the St. Paul Principles in a tech book. what even is my life
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I love that first one. It properly frames so many things.
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