As someone who avoids javascript and its attendant ecosystem like its the Visual Basic plague of the 21st Century, the most interesting aspect of this whole story is the fact that Koçulu disconnected from the tech scene for some time, did some amazing hiking and camping and trail discovery, and now .. 8 years later .. still feels compelled to explain himself.
Technology is a fickle muse. We nerds obsess over her and degrade ourselves in her service, but she always calls us back into the light.
As someone who was around for the Morris worm and spent weeks negating its impact, I feel that there is a fundamental issue impacting our ability to make world-changing technology with the current tools. The less we strive to understand the organizational (ethical) failings of technology, the less technology can be used to effect productive change in the realms it is being applied.
That said, I'm about a month (and a few hundred failed compiles) away from taking my own sabbatical, and I can't help but try to reason what things would be like for me, upon my return after some years, in the technological space I've carved out for my own needs, at much different scales and contexts.
Perhaps it should become somewhat standard for us technologists to take sabbaticals, more often, and more seriously, in order to give us the context we need to understand the ethical dilemma that impinges upon our technological prowess.
Koçulu, thank you for your thoughts. I may never be effected by the javascript world, but the lessons it provides from within the temple nevertheless reverberate among the outer chambers ..
Technology is a fickle muse. We nerds obsess over her and degrade ourselves in her service, but she always calls us back into the light.
As someone who was around for the Morris worm and spent weeks negating its impact, I feel that there is a fundamental issue impacting our ability to make world-changing technology with the current tools. The less we strive to understand the organizational (ethical) failings of technology, the less technology can be used to effect productive change in the realms it is being applied.
That said, I'm about a month (and a few hundred failed compiles) away from taking my own sabbatical, and I can't help but try to reason what things would be like for me, upon my return after some years, in the technological space I've carved out for my own needs, at much different scales and contexts.
Perhaps it should become somewhat standard for us technologists to take sabbaticals, more often, and more seriously, in order to give us the context we need to understand the ethical dilemma that impinges upon our technological prowess.
Koçulu, thank you for your thoughts. I may never be effected by the javascript world, but the lessons it provides from within the temple nevertheless reverberate among the outer chambers ..