Fin (Why I'm Retiring)

[Jay Scott ANDERSON]

What I see, reading between the lines, is someone rejecting business-as-usual, abandoning a place he finds unpleasant and feels he has no significant effect, and, at the same time, connecting with natural systems which are in harmony with his desire to feel productive and effect positive change.

http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/fin/

At the most basic level, the entire industry (like, I suspect, most others) plays to employees’ desire to keep their jobs.  Whether the existence of those jobs and the manner in which they are presently filled are in the best interests of the stockholders is irrelevant.  A very cozy industry has resulted.  Real change is slow, creative destruction slower still.

The author goes on to elaborate how the tech industry favors closed systems with inherent lack of innovation over open systems that are more likely to result in progressive improvements.

On the subject of "technological liberation", it seems to me that decentralizing networking technologies, like P2P and "Mesh Wi-fi" can uproot the Praetorian Guard that protects the entrenched interests and their outdated technologies. And, to bring it back to the topic of this group, what effect would technological innovation in the hands of the masses have on "business as usual"?

Jay.

[Fabio Cecin]

The Capitalist Tech Industry follows the logic of "capital" (maximize power, defeat opponents). That logic produces all that mediocre stuff he's talking about.

The real shocker is realizing that when the logic of capital produces crap (99.9% of the time) that's actually a feature. At least that allows us to wake up to it.

Having superior tech is nice, but much better is to discover a new story, a new value system, etc. that generates all kinds of better things, tech or not.

Fabio

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