Change has arrived even here on the craggy old C2
WikiWeb.
What does
PresidentObama's election mean to the future of software development? His administration is already vastly better wired than that of his
TechIlliterate predecessor.
Besides his justice department hiring lots of RecordingIndustryAssociationOfAmerica lawyers? or selling out all our phone taps to the big telecoms?
America's energy, transport and financial infrastructure is in critical disrepair but
PresidentObama promises a massive public works project to renew it all. He will have to
PrintMoney to pay for it ... but that beats printing money for no good reason at all.
All
PresidentObama's new infrastructure spending will require new
ControlSystems,
SecuritySystems, and
ManagementSystems. What will we write them in?
And increased funding for cops catching minorities with a joint and throwing them in jail for multi-year sentences?
And let's not forget we have brand new
ElectoralSystems to put in place. We've already seen something wonderful on change.org ... but what else could be done now?
If American foreign policy is rededicated to principles of
SatyaGraha, how can we extend and deepen the
OpenSource movement to build on this?
What a wonderful day has dawned!
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PeterMerel
I must have missed something. What new
ElectoralSystem? And I wouldn't get quite so excited about Obama. He still hasn't actually changed anything (except perception).
To answer the questions,
- there will be a short term increase as the infrastructure is built, but that will be temporary.
- that depends on what you want to accomplish.
- I doubt American foreign policy will be rededicated to the principles of SatyaGraha in the first place, so I doubt we will be able to extend and deepen the OpenSource movement to build on it.
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MartinShobe
The best long-term Obamoid goal would be to strengthen democracy. The same systems Karl Rove used to steal the last 2 presidential elections can now be turned around and used to enforce voter rights. That, in turn, might lead to more education, and less people voting against their own best interests... --
PhlIp