mandrake As we have seen through our long Anabasis to this point, I have used interpretations and propagandizations of Moore’s Law and Amdahl’s Laws as backstory and context for explication of a movement I call cybernetic-utopianism[from our first installment: a movement of the “possessed” in the Dostoevskyian sense to establish a self-sustaining social feedback system(both […]
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 […]
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 […]