29 July, 2019

The Internet's Old Guard

https://reading.supply/post/432f6903-c7cd-4cb0-a894-c09155a8ca8b
When you consider the long-term future impact, computing is very new. Many of its pioneers are still around—that won't be the case in a few generations. It will be easier to see in retrospect, but this is also a pivotal period, and things done now will have ripple effects all the way down our future
light cone.

Utopian visions never work out. You can strive for them, but expect your expectations to be subverted. Perhaps it's more realistic to think in terms of shifting the range of possible futures available with what we introduce.


Encourage people to bring out the positive but build defenses against the negative for all possible outcomes of a new technology.