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Bruce Schneier Recommends New Type of Technologist

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 13 2019, @03:11PM   
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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• Re:Don't need any technologist Re:Don't need any technologist (Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 13 2019, @05:40PM (2 children)

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday October 13 2019, @05:40PM (#906680) Homepage Journal

  I love the idea. Maybe it'll keep the business-and-community-destroying morons corralled into their little niches and the fuck out of people who want to create awesome things's hair for a while.

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• Re:Don't need any technologist Re:Don't need any technologist (Score: 2, Funny) by RandomFactor on Sunday October 13 2019, @08:11PM (1 child)

  by RandomFactor (3682) on Sunday October 13 2019, @08:11PM (#906699) Journal

  Pollyanna is an odd name for a buzzard.

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  • Re:Don't need any technologist (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 13 2019, @08:56PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday October 13 2019, @08:56PM (#906704) Homepage Journal

    That's me, just one big fucking ray of sunshine.

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