2026-08-09 09:13 UTC
@ajswritesthings@plasmatrap.com this is obviously all pretty half-baked on my part, but I guess my vague view is: 1) the trend across my lifetime has been steady and dramatic increase in personal computing power, so it wouldn't be astonishing if stuff that is currently only feasible for organisations with access to eye-watering levels of capital becomes more broadly accessible (though of course there'll presumably be new innovations that require similar massive capital aggregation!); and
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@Lafargue@mastodon.social 2026-08-09 09:13
@ajswritesthings@plasmatrap.com 2) I sort of feel like, although the technologies that are at the centre of attention change over time, the need for massive capital aggregation to achieve *some* collective goal (railways, or dams, or power, or whatever) is sort of a constant feature of technological modernity - so the same governance problem keeps showing up in different forms.