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"Volatility," the authors go on to note, "is an artifact of the abstractions that make computer systems useful"
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum • Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (The MIT Press)
Churned customers - people who have cancelled their account
Ramli John • Product-Led Onboarding
In his magnificent history of the origins of modern computing, Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson notes that some of the earliest thinkers about digital computing realized that the spread of “codes”—that is, programs—from computer to computer is akin to the spread of viruses, and perhaps of more complex living organisms, that take over a host and put
... See moreTim O'Reilly • Wtf?
New worldviews are bubbling away in little cauldrons all the time, but they only flow into the mainstream (eg become part of corporate trainings, official gov't policy, school curricula) when they are structurally of service to preserve the power status quo.
Suggesting that technology can solve these types of problems—an attitude that the technology critic Evgeny Morozov decries as “solutionism”13—is misguided at best and duplicitous at worst. Tech
