To which I added ggl's front page:
Look at the political proclivities of tech PM types as well ... Zuckerberg, Dorsey, head of properties on X ... then look at the political naivety at, say, Wired ... and you start to question tech engineers' left leaning on the whole.
I put it down to being so tied up with open bracket-close bracket type thinking ... a sort of pedantry required to operate online activities ... and somehow political thinking seems to have no disk space in their minds.
There are exceptions, yes, and one of those is "helping me" across the way but seriously though ... why would anyone employ a WEFer like Yaccarino as CEO? I'm just applying the same pedantic, exhaustive thinking a techie does here.
I built my own home computer in 1979, Yes, that is how old I am, and it wasn't even the first kit available. It was a UK101, a 6502 processor with a whole 4Kb of ram and no storage you had to type in the code and record it on to a audio tape. I upgraded to a BBC computer, another 6502 by Acorn, when it came out and that was a massive leap forward for the IT industry. It even had 32Kb of memory and was capable of being upgraded to a hard disk. That was a game changer for anyone IT literate and the Commodore Pet sold to businesses. Then Apple and IBM came out with their systems. it exploded from there. Apple staying in control of the Hw and SW while IBM were more interested in the HW. That mistake was how Billy Boy Gates made his money. IT allowed innovation and progress and it was great. Interesting times and the industry is entirely different now. We now see the other side of the coin where IT no longer does good but is used by totalitarians to control and manipulate us.
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