Just read another big tech post about the future of software engineering. Lots of people quoted: not a single woman quoted.
People are always gonna read this kind of thing as "shrill" or whatever so please picture me saying this in a super bored, calm, chill voice which is accurate. There's always a contraction around who gets to speak first and loudest when things are about The Future
I find it kind of interesting because I've seen it across so many spaces and cycles in tech. Women suddenly are invited into spaces when it's "time to do culture" and "time to get stable" not when it's "time for wild predictions"! We can make wild predictions too
@grimalkina
Yeah, Marjorie Taylor Greene said some wildfires are caused by space lasers, clearly someone qualified to share stage with a tech sage like Elon Musk or Peter "antichrist is here" Thiel!
Maybe more in line with what you had in mind, I have a vague recollection that Katherine Freese suggested you could have smartphones all over the world take pictures at night, and by correlating the noise in these pictures it was possible to detect dark matter. Sadly that lady puts out waay to many papers with more reasonable ideas for me to be able to find this suggestion again.
@grimalkina
Sorry of it came across as offensive, it genuinely the first woman that came to mind making "wild" tech statements.
Ultimately I think I just disagree with your point: women shouldn't be present at these visionary gatherings because they can be as "wild" as men; women should be present because they represent a good half of humanity and that's just too large a perspective to not be presented.
Frankly I think the biggest practical benefit from wider representation is that it brings in _new_ perspectives, so I just don't like "women can do this just as well as men" arguments because they seem suspiciously like "women can become functionally male-codes, and then their presence is ok".
@tobychev what are you talking jumping in here with MTG??