circle with a hole in the middle So we finally reach Moore’s Law itself. It may seem strange that we have gone through two complete segments dealing with Moore’s Law only in an expository manner-like Lincoln’s Gettysburg address;simply invoking it’s name is sufficient to convey gravitas as to the mythical origin of the Union. It’s […]
nuages How the cybernetic-utopians plan to defeat the second law of thermodynamics by chicanery alone We must first acknowledge that technologically inspired utopias come in a variety of flavors these days. There are the usual and well worn general “colony on Mars” panaceas tiresomely familiar to anyone old enough to have watched an Apollo launch […]
shadows cybernetic-utopianism – a hegemonic movement of the “possessed” in the Dostoevskyian sense, to establish a self-sustaining social feedback system(both physical and virtual) based on the meta-model of the hive with a cohort of technological panjandrums ruling sovereign from the apex. Key concepts of this insurgency are a radical form of “technological autonomy” and “inevitablism” […]
It would be an injustice to try to generalize or sum up all the nuances and tributaries of Graeber’s work in these two volumes with a few bon mots, but a handful of points particularly relevant to software engineering are gone into at some length(convincingly): From The Utopia of Rules “As whole societies have come […]