Re:Creeping as a Service
by webmaven on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:17AM
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> Ideally we get to a place in the future when this isn't true.
You know the Gibson quote "The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed"? The corollary is that the present isn't evenly distributed either. The past often lingers well past it's sell-by date.
So even if/when we get to such a place, I don't think the problem will actually go away for a long time, if ever.
Consider that the US is more than two generations past the 1964 civil rights act, and that while, as a country, the US recently elected and even reelected a Black president, there has subsequently been a significant reactionary backlash, to put it mildly, that is still ongoing.
You know the Gibson quote "The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed"? The corollary is that the present isn't evenly distributed either. The past often lingers well past it's sell-by date.
So even if/when we get to such a place, I don't think the problem will actually go away for a long time, if ever.
Consider that the US is more than two generations past the 1964 civil rights act, and that while, as a country, the US recently elected and even reelected a Black president, there has subsequently been a significant reactionary backlash, to put it mildly, that is still ongoing.