Eleanor SaittaRepeat after me: all technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first.
darthfrosty@dymaxion It should be obvious, but still worth saying out loud, that the solutions are therefore also political. It’s culture change. That’s what’s required.
@darthfrosty The solutions are political, but because infrastructure is also political, you can use infrastructure to solve a political problem — but only once you a) know it's a political problem, b) have designed that piece of infrastructure to solve the problem, and if c) it's a problem that's amenable to an infrastructural solution. It's not technosolutionism if it's a political problem that can *actually* be solved by technology. That's just, you know, rare. Likewise, I'd say that many technical problems of sufficient scope aren't "just" cultural" — they can just as easily be legal, financial, etc., — there are many different shards of politics.
@dymaxion Hmm, I suppose you’re right insofar as technology influences culture change. Sensibilities about what privacy is worth protecting is different between generations who were born after the advent of social media and those who came of age prior to it. Tough to predict, though, what culture change will result from introduction of a new technology.
I think it’s more approachable, from a solutioning standpoint, to push for a change of hearts and minds: “value this differently because…” Then technology serves to amplify the changing culture.