How does one teach resilient tech to a generation where tech has just worked, even as that generation sees that nothing about the social contract that they’ve inherited works?
Tech which can just fall over at the slightest push because it works on assumptions about underlying layers which each require more energy than the layer beneath them.
As we move into an era of less energy.
(If you’re paying attention)
The thing is, layering in more complexity and resource dependency to do a thing that could be done with *much less* is just stupid, but it’s exactly what an energy blind culture does.
It cannot see the cost and so to all intents and purposes there isn’t one. But there really is, is non-obvious ways…
…For example, imagine a distraught parent trying to get an appointment for their sick child on a GP website which is heavily and needelessly Javascript dependent.
They’ve had their electricity cut, and their phone is low on battery, and now every interaction on the website is draining their battery.
Until it’s gone, and now their child doesn’t see the GP.
Obviously, this is just illustrative, but it could happen right?
Who do we blame for this, the web developers or those who are running courses to teach web / app design and creation. ,
I am guessing that it will just get worse once more websites embrace AI, and we have more bloat to deal with.
@zleap gosh that’s a question. It’s way bigger than web dev. It’s what an energy blind culture does – e.g. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/03/how-to-escape-from-the-iron-age/
Fixing it starts with curiosity about how things have been is not the way they are going to be