This is an interesting observation about the different philosophies in tech
Google / Facebook: computers doing things for people
Microsoft / Apple: computers are an aid to humans
@julianruf But at least tech can unite under its primary philosophies:
- selling users' personal information for unfathomable sums of money
- planned obsolescence
- creating an endless supply of waste from exceedingly rare materials
@Shamar Good objection, by focusing on mainstream tech only, the article for sure misses a more nuanced discussion of the things you’re mentioning.
Having said that I’m wondering whether your third philosophy, on a more general level, could belong to the philosophy of computer being an aid to humans / being a tool to empower humans? Of course your philosophy emphasizes different aspects, but in general there’s the consensus that computers should empower and not replace people.
#Hackers instead ARE #philosophers: they literally "love knowledge" (φιλεῖν σοφία).
As an #hacker, my ethics is based on #Curiosity.
I want to know.
And I want others to know too, so that I can #learn more, more rapidly, from them.
So the hacker's #philosophy is different.
We want people to be #free to #challenge our assumptions, to prove us wrong, to #create on their own.
We want everyone to become an hacker, to #hack the world as a #child.
To make it better.
For everyone.
