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It’s the winter perineum so I get time to read books because of extra toddler help; this year I’m reading several books on “the future of the internet” dating from 1998-2008, and doing so reminds me o

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…as there used to be a joke about USENET where topical groups were disparaged:

sci.physics: physics as understood by computer science majors soc.politics: politics as understood by computer science majors

Etc; then, as now, this was not a fair characterisation but it had some truth.

Equally now, these books I’m reading can and should be (have been) characterised as:

Technology as understood by Law Professors Internet Architecture as understood by Philosophy Professors Software Engineering as understood by Activists who can do Excel

… but they have never been lampooned because the authors have power – or at least: barrels of ink and an audience who prefer to continue reading them rather than to hold them to account.
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