i am begging journalists to become even a little bit interested in the systems of organization that are rapidly becoming the underpinning of our entire society
in re: https://inherently.digital/@hierarchon/112239873035451707
this is really an unbelievable level of affected uninterest.
contrast with, say, Tracy Kidder's book "Soul of a New Machine", which simply elides what he considers boring to his audience and extensively covers the social and societal aspects of a technical organization
it's actually really interesting - and really *bad* - that the general public feels that database software that a huge number of organizations use is so arcane and so boring that it's not worth a two-sentence explainer in a mainstream newspaper. it's a clear sign of the formation of a priesthood, in my opinion
i feel similarly about the lack of interest people tend to show in, say, water treatment, waste management, and manufacturing processes. it's good and important to know and care about the way your life is built and maintained
and especially for us middle-class white people in the imperial core - we have more power than most in re: these systems, and it's incumbent upon us to understand them to at least some degree for that reason
@noracodes office suites used to come with basic database solutions, I wonder why they stopped, is everyone just using Excel for that?
