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[–] dwazou@lemm.ee 18 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

San Francisco is the city with the most tech engineers and software developers. It's the US city with the most tech entrepreneurs. The roads are full of robot cars. You see people walking around with tech glasses and weird devices. You could throw a rock in the street and it will probably land on some tech guy.

It's a complete disaster. Homeless people everywhere. Families unable to see a doctor or a dentist. Desperate men in the streets, injecting themselves with drugs. Luxury private schools where smartphones are banned and professors give tips to get into Stanford. Poor public schools for ordinary children.

What kind of Utopia is this? This is not utopia. It's a nightmare.

[–] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 7 points 15 hours ago

Sounds like early version of cyberpunk city.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Speaking as a software developer, software developers should stick to their lane. There is plenty of stuff the very best software developers are stereotypically terrible at. "Programmer art" is a genuine phenomenon illustrating our lazy, half-baked efforts to create things that we are not expert at. Apparently, "Programmer politics" is another such area of non-expertise, because the tech bros ideas are a fucking stupid fantasy.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Love the "programmer politics" concept.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Seems interesting. What did you think about it?

[–] JOMusic@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I listened to the whole audiobook in a day - one of the best books I've purchased recently. As someone who has been very much into the techno-futurists over the last 15 years, I would suggest this book, along with Manu Saadia's Trekonomics for a much needed reality-check.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 1 points 7 hours ago

Sick! I've added both to my list.

I'm almost done with "Tracers in the Dark"