Fourth Law: Although technology might be a prime element in many public issues, nontechnical factors take precedence in technology-policy decisions.
Fourth Law: Although technology might be a prime element in many public issues, nontechnical factors take precedence in technology-policy decisions.
Turing's Cathedral
by George Dyson:
“Dyson’s nuanced retelling showed me the tangled history of computing—shaped by politics, war, and human ambition—and challenged my assumptions about tech as purely meritocratic.”
by George Dyson:
“Dyson’s nuanced retelling showed me the tangled history of computing—shaped by politics, war, and human ambition—and challenged my assumptions about tech as purely meritocratic.”
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In many instances, to say that some technologies are inherently political is to say that certain widely accepted reasons of practical necessity–especially the need to maintain critical technological systems as smoothly working entities–have tended to eclipse other sorts of moral and political reasoning.
Langdon Winner • Do Artifacts Have Politics?
I digress but the main point is simple: the drivers of social coherence, such as culture, governance, morality, law, shared stories, and shared values might as well be considered “technologies”. These stories, at least as much as our manipulations of fire, matter, and information, sustain our relationships with one another and with the planet.... See more