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.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Sunday October 13 2019, @09:05PM (2 children)
I think that's a bit of a straw person. It seems more likely zhey would not affirm the vehicle's feelings at all and would instead consider the broad oppressive social structure, the vehicle custodian's apparent place within it, and adjust the outcome for the vehicle based on the vehicle custodian's perceived standing in the SJW victim hierarchy.
This is different than the classical model where the outcome for the vehicle is largely based on what the mechanic is paid to do to it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @01:32AM (1 child)
I'm not woke enough, is "zhey" the pronoun for people that currently identify as attack helicopters?
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Sunday October 20 2019, @01:29PM
Or possibly penguins.
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