Open/closed, a look at the issues in tech
The idea of total control manifested in the master/slave relationship of computers and programmers is a core of geek culture.
- Open is about attempting to share power in society.
- Closed is about attempting to block social power.
The #geekproblem at root in our society is about liberalism excepting the division of the state and the citizen, it’s about the liberal ideal of individualism “the is no such thing as society only individuals and there family” though in the case of the #geekproblem it’s just the individual and not so much the family. Our current #geekproblem is a child of Thatcher and Reagan and the #neoliberalism they embedded into our social minds.
It’s interesting to see that the #dotcons (the right) have overcome this #geekproblem and enslaved code, programmers and the network to the control of the capital (and the state) and it’s sad that the left are children in this game.
A way out of this mess is to clearly reject the “closed” ideas in tech and instead re-embrace “open”. Thus unblocking the social flow, what we do with this flow (dangerous stuff) is up to us. We can recognise the danger yes, but to balance that we MUST recognise the disaster we are in now.
“Closed” feeds and re-enforce disaster and in NO WAY helps society to move from this mess #XR
We need flow, not blocking.
It’s simple.