Our (western) authoritarian reaction to the #ClimateCrisis has been foretold and we chose to act by every single letter of that "prophecy".

Still do, still will in the future.

It's called #PathDependency and we will follow that path untill it hits a wall.

📖 #ChristianParenti #TropicOfChaos

These are the slides from my keynote today (or, in my land, yesterday) at Confluence 2023, hosted by Amity University in India. It was a cloud computing conference, so quite a way outside my area of greatest expertise, but it gave me a chance to apply the theory of technology developed in my forthcoming book  to a different context. The illustrations for the slides are the result of a conversation between me and MidJourney (more of an argument that MidJourney tended to win) which is quite a nice illustration of the interplay of hard and soft technologies, the adjacent possible, soft technique, and so on.

Unsurprisingly, because education is a fundamentally technological phenomenon, much the same principles that apply to education also apply to cloud computing, such as: build from small, hard pieces; valorize openness, diversity and connection; seek the adjacent possible; the whole assembly is the only thing that matters and so the central principle that how you do it matters far more than what you do.

#adjacent-possible #cloud #hard-technology #pace-layering #path-dependency #soft-technology #technique #tech

https://jondron.ca/my-keynote-slides-for-confluence-2023-heads-in-the-clouds-being-human-in-the-age-of-cloud-computing/

On this day #OTD in 1983, the #tcpip #networking protocol became widely adopted, superseding several different prior protocols.

Such is the impact of #standards that #tcpip remains the foundation of the internet today, 40 years later. See this excellent article by @benjedwards for more technical details.

What are the #PathDependency of today that will echo in forty years' time?

https://www.howtogeek.com/751880/the-foundation-of-the-internet-tcpip-turns-40/amp/