I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology.

[tante@tldr.nettime.org]

I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.

But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.

[fedithom@social.saarland]

@tante this! That's me, and sooo few of my friends get it

[tofticles@helvede.net]

@tante My fondest experience in software was building (over ~9 years) an ERP system with the founding principle: "We want it to work for at least 30 years" which had a lot of knock-off effects. We were allowed to improve things that mattered more for maintenance than functionality.

The joy of being able to shift technology on the frontend with little effect to the backend, having response times in single digit ms and so on.

There was plenty to improve, still, but I had pride in my work.

[tante@tldr.nettime.org]

@tofticles that sounds really cool

[paddyduke@mastodon.social]

@tante 100%

I don’t think anyone really hates technology.

What almost everyone hates, but may struggle to identify or articulate, is the rapacious, capitalist, consumerist, colonialist, patriarchal hierarchy by which our technology is informed.

[47be0b2a89faaa66bc57f5c679203486da45660295cb3db3c2f38f4be8d8816e@mostr.pub]

> ... we deploy ... solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia

Who's "we" here? You don't have the skills for that.

[sergiudinit@mastodon.social]

This is such a good distinction. Technology built to solve real problems vs technology built to extract value from people. The joy comes from the former and we used to have way more of it

[drcampbell@mastodon.social]

I like this concept. Now I have to go look up what a Luddite is