This deserved a separate post. Thank you again to the guys at Diaspora.
“Mark Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record, he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age. Because he harnessed ‘friday night’, that is ‘everybody needs to get laid’, and he turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human personality… this is bad … we are technologists, we should fix it”
“We need to re-architect services in the net.
We need to redistribute services back toward the edge.
We need to devirtualize the servers where your life is stored.
We need to restore some autonomy to you as the owner of a server.”
Technologists HAVE to realize that most of the people in the world HAVE NO IDEA what you are talking about, and that you HAVE NO IDEA what people WANT – which is why something that is “so simple to do” hasn’t happened yet, and why other degenerate services like Facebook and Google are thriving.
“We haven’t given ourselves the direction in which to go… the direction in which to go is towards freedom using free software to make social justice.”
To carry that around with you, you have to do it in such a way that the ‘everybody who needs to get laid on friday night’ can understand too. There is a huge technological & intellectual & moral gap to bridge in order to make a social impact. Technological skills are not enough to cross that bridge. They haven’t been and there’s no reason to expect that to change.
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Eben Moglen – Freedom in The Cloud
This deserved a separate post. Thank you again to the guys at Diaspora.
BUT here is where I believe academics, technologists and academic theory fails:
Technologists HAVE to realize that most of the people in the world HAVE NO IDEA what you are talking about, and that you HAVE NO IDEA what people WANT – which is why something that is “so simple to do” hasn’t happened yet, and why other degenerate services like Facebook and Google are thriving.
To carry that around with you, you have to do it in such a way that the ‘everybody who needs to get laid on friday night’ can understand too. There is a huge technological & intellectual & moral gap to bridge in order to make a social impact. Technological skills are not enough to cross that bridge. They haven’t been and there’s no reason to expect that to change.