(Faulty) Tech Utopias provide a convenient justification for ignoring the real problems of today

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• dwazou@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  San Francisco is the city with the most millionaires and billionaires.

  It’s a complete disaster. Homeless people everywhere.

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  • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Speaking as a software developer, software developers should stick to their lane. There is plenty of stuff the very best software developers are stereotypically terrible at. “Programmer art” is a genuine phenomenon illustrating our lazy, half-baked efforts to create things that we are not expert at. Apparently, “Programmer politics” is another such area of non-expertise, because the tech bros ideas are a fucking stupid fantasy.

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    • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Love the “programmer politics” concept.

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  • zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • tfowinder@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds like early version of cyberpunk city.

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• nagaram@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seems interesting. What did you think about it?

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  • JOMusic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I listened to the whole audiobook in a day - one of the best books I’ve purchased recently. As someone who has been very much into the techno-futurists over the last 15 years, I would suggest this book, along with Manu Saadia’s Trekonomics for a much needed reality-check.

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    • nagaram@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sick! I’ve added both to my list.

      I’m almost done with “Tracers in the Dark”

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