The 4th Bubble, episode 27

Gotta make a jump ahead because on foote's notice I reread Mob Software and remembered someone's [chris, motz, henso?] quote from that text about Fast Lane Capitalism and its effect on programmers education. FLC for shure does a lot in this, but I'll try a different approach now.

Writing software is a highly literate process. In all fields of human doing we can see the effects of what Marshal McLuhan calls electrification or deliteralization. The western world is going back to the auditive - tactile non geometric universe. Why should building software be untouched by this. I think everybody should reread Unterstanding Media. It's a pity the McLuhan Family seems not to publish anything relevant on the web.

Capitalism is a highly literate system having developed in the heyday of literacy. So in a way it might fit pretty well with literacy based technologies as George Gilder never tires to prove in his dreamings of ideal mind over matter capitalism. In other ways it might be not so fit to cope with the complex cultural development we have and still see in our livetimes.

George Gilder: Microcosm, 1989, oop, can be borrowed from me.

The consequences of this might be to go in the direction of reduction. One of the benefits of the web was to bring about lots of reduction. At a certain price. Many ideas and artifacts that exist are reinvented. Sometimes for the better. Often for the worse.

If I drop too many names in this, please let me know. I just wanted to reference what I read read and that many of these (often antiliterate) ideas have a literate background.

Hey Henso what about Erfurt now?

My automotive chip designer friend Michael Sprachmann mailed me back on Big BOMs: das freut mich, daß sich eine neue Blase dazugesellt hat! Was da drinnen steckt weiß ich noch nicht genau.

Was die Big Balls of Mud betrifft, kann ich Dir sagen, daß auch in manchen feschen Cabrios ein paar klapprige Shantytowns mit auf die Reise gehen:-)