Ordering/organizing is a more managerial stance, like coordination, a valuing of alignments, as opposed to the production of numerical outcomes.
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There was a whole history of French computing around Minitel that was kinda managerial
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yeah totally different vibe, like ministries, offices, indices of info to be organized and coordinated. this bigger range of stories opens up the imagination about how we can be in the technological present and future.
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Futurama central bureaucracy vibes. Also Chilean cybersyn. Gives me the creeps tbh.
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I think I'm often trying to get people to see computing as not necessarily whatever form or process they have in mind. The lock gets tight given the plasticity and expressive possibility computing actually allows. I can see the creeps given. Makes sense.
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yup. we need a computing political compass tho, so we can stop collapsing tech into bad or good or neutral.
by what means to what ends?
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Ooh alignment chart. French computing is Lawful Evil. American computing is chaotic neutral.
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