"I consider these to be or regard them as symptoms of a profound political immaturity in our field -- an issue that we must learn to consider much more seriously when we take a look at the actual role of informatics in society."In advance, this will be my arguing line: in an overwhelming majority of conflict cases inside informatics-centric communities in general, discussions seem to tend or lean towards gross simplifications of technical orders. And it also seems as though diagnoses of problems are unanimously concluded with the only idea in mind of degraded 'purities': the constant shadow of corruption, or people that don't comply with guiding principles (or don't understand them, and therefore these people are idiots). I consider these to be or regard them as symptoms of a profound political immaturity in our field -- an issue that we must learn to consider much more seriously when we take a look at the actual role of informatics in society.
However, as arguing this may be coming across as indoctrinating, I very much long for current Internet standards, and from time to time diverge from simple notions to problematic generalisations, as I prefer to split all this essay into parts, as follows:
1. Technocracy, and contemporary technocracies, as in the example of economics.
2. The philosophical nature of progress.
3. Informatics, society, and Free Software: some conclusions.
Stay tuned for parts 1-3. ⬆