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Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 05:01:09 JST Nathan Schneider

New syllabus draft up, suggestions welcome:
Future Histories of Technology
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  Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 12:00:32 JST Nathan Schneider
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  Ooh I love this
  
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  Dave Ackley (livcomp@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 12:00:33 JST Dave Ackley
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  it's probably too nerd in context but
  it's pretty literally a future history of techonology -
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    The Path to Best Effort
    
    Research and development in best effort computing has taken off since the VSW, in an emerging major technological transition that may ultimately rival the digital computing revolution itself. Here at the end of the so-called First Computing Century ('CC0', 1940--2039), we reflect on computation's long fixation on the ideas of hardware determinism and software efficiency, before their incompatibility with scalability, robustness, and security was widely appreciated. We go beyond questions like `What were they even thinking?' and `How could anybody stand to compute like that?', to highlight hardware, architecture, software, and systems innovations behind best effort computing, with its crucial reframing of computer security as an aspect of robustness and synchronization rather than correctness and isolation. Finally, we celebrate the emergence of the microcomputome and `syncurity' as signs we are maturing beyond hardware determinism and the belief in the existence of the Last Bug.

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