@tomcoates : so...we never get to find out why you don't agree?
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@slightlylate The line about undemocratic is also odd, given that people have wildly more influence in current tech than they did in..2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes -
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@slightlylate … pretty much every tech development in technology before, from agriculture through to steam, industrialisation etc.5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@slightlylate To me, that whole middle section feels like Douglas Adams on technology - ie. everything that happens after you're 30 is bad3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@slightlylate … but the 'please just make it stop because it's weirding me out' position seems to me utterly untenable as well as a cliché1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@slightlylate As always there are the things you agree with or disagree with and the things you actually get irritated about.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@slightlylate For me, the narrative of silicon valley as self-important tech bro arseholes enshittening the world drives me insane.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@slightlylate And the view that we could somehow just stop changing things just leaves my jaw on the floor in disbelief.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@tomcoates : oh, I think you can absolutely delay progress -- I work in standards, after all. Not saying that we should.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@slightlylate My experience has been you can only block so much water before the river finds a new course in roughly the same direction.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@tomcoates : my experience is that tech is highly path dependent...but I think we are only disagreeing on degree.
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