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Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 13 2019, @03:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the last-throes-of-public-culture dept.

jmichaelhudsondotnet writes:

https://public-interest-tech.com/

Mr. Schneier and friends have created a new website to promote a change to the socio-economic technical milieu we are currently facing.

He suggests we need to have "public interest technologists" to help the situation.

He writes:

"We need technologists who work in the public interest. We need public-interest technologists.

Defining this term is difficult. One Ford Foundation blog post described public-interest technologists as "technology practitioners who focus on social justice, the common good, and/or the public interest.""

Is he right? How can this be implemented without becoming as riddled with government agents, spies and mafias as the key positions of our corporations and institutions are right now?

Full disclosure: this writer has been a public interest technologist for a while now and I have actually alluded to the need for something like what is being suggested on multiple occasions, 'a different kind of organization' is the way I put it, way back a few months ago.

Discuss.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by redneckmother on Sunday October 13 2019, @05:36PM (1 child)

    by redneckmother (3597) on Sunday October 13 2019, @05:36PM (#906677)

    "There has been an ongoing theory that if it is raining on the rich, it will drip on the poor, which recent research has proven wrong."

    All I know is that "trickle down economics" has succeeded in making me yellow and wet.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 13 2019, @10:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 13 2019, @10:44PM (#906748)

    So are you for auditing the Federal Reserve?