Charisma, nostalgia, charismatic object ... wow. These words. Spot on framing.
I remember OLPC and have vague memories of being at a few talks related to the topic (cannot remember where or why) and having an immediate underlying sense of cognitive dissonance that I couldn’t entirely name despite wanting to like/support the idea rather than make a pissy face, because no one in techmania wanted to see my pissy face much less hear me say, “welllll but... did you consider XYZ?” Back then, the result of my cog diss in response to OLPC was me largely ignoring the whole idea as hype or, at the very least classifying it as “not my problem.”
But now, and this framing. Charisma nostalgia etc. I feel my brain reaching back in time for forgotten memories, attempted to unpack the cog diss I felt not just then but throughout way too much off my former career in comp sci related stuff.
Because like, frankly, I spent my final decade in that arena consistently complaining about all of the hyped projects that were based on myopic visions of creators thinking they know the solution to every problem in the world merely because, idek, they can do hex arithmetic in their head and computer technology is the glorious hammer they hide behind (to avoid a world of complexity) ...and thus the big wide world of everything real all looks like nails for their hammer when viewed through a green on black terminal window.
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Date: 2020-05-29 11:01 pm (UTC)I remember OLPC and have vague memories of being at a few talks related to the topic (cannot remember where or why) and having an immediate underlying sense of cognitive dissonance that I couldn’t entirely name despite wanting to like/support the idea rather than make a pissy face, because no one in techmania wanted to see my pissy face much less hear me say, “welllll but... did you consider XYZ?” Back then, the result of my cog diss in response to OLPC was me largely ignoring the whole idea as hype or, at the very least classifying it as “not my problem.”
But now, and this framing. Charisma nostalgia etc. I feel my brain reaching back in time for forgotten memories, attempted to unpack the cog diss I felt not just then but throughout way too much off my former career in comp sci related stuff.
Because like, frankly, I spent my final decade in that arena consistently complaining about all of the hyped projects that were based on myopic visions of creators thinking they know the solution to every problem in the world merely because, idek, they can do hex arithmetic in their head and computer technology is the glorious hammer they hide behind (to avoid a world of complexity) ...and thus the big wide world of everything real all looks like nails for their hammer when viewed through a green on black terminal window.