Gregory's ServerCollapse computing prioritizes community needs and aims to contribute to a knowledge commons in order to sustain the practice of computation through infrastructure collapse, it is the practice of engaging with the discarded with an eye to transform what is exhausted and wasted into renewed resources.
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@wryl I'm a bit scared of this idea to be honest. Human assemblage might be incompatible with individual freedom and voluntary cooperation, which I value highly.  @neauoire Networks of trust were personal long before they were electronic. :) Though I agree. Maybe we should start looking into mechanical computing.. Wooden Turing machine, anyone? https://youtu.be/vo8izCKHiF0 ..or whatever the model of computation https://xkcd.com/505/ is. @wryl You might like the various ideas of paper computing(WDR, Cardiac, etc), and fluidics too :) @wryl You'll enjoy this link on the page @neauoire Paper computing has a soft spot in my heart because I always have the corner case of "what if we just.. lose all of our automated computing devices?" A lot of models have been built that are simple enough to carry in your head, or on a writing surface, so that you could play Church/Turing/Godel/Post and re-derive the rest of computer science from scratch. As educational tools they're vital, because in order to program effectively, you must "role-play" as the machine. Paper first! @wryl yes! And, it has some traits that are like self-obviation, you can memorize the mechanical aspects of a computation enough that you don't need to do it anymore. @neauoire Agreed in all parts. I've been trying to articulate this to some of my colleagues. We need to stray much further from encapsulation ("your experience is in your device") to augmentation ("you use your device to augment your experience"). A bicycle is a mode of transport. It does not subsume your experience, it augments it. "Bicycles for the mind", as so many tech circles like to make reference to, need to actually fit that role. They don't own your eyes. They allow you to cruise. |
@neauoire Something that I think of regularly is the idea of human-oriented computing.
As in, computing and organizational structures that can be translated from nanometers of conductive material into assemblages of humans.
We went one way, from hand-driven computation and collaboration and state-tracking and note-taking to electronic augmentations. Why can't we design models that can go in reverse?
I have a model. I'm sure others do too.