I just hope the Big AJAX Industry doesn't bribe congress to subsidize Fossil Protocols such as XML and SOAP, just to delay the transition to more environmentally friendly technologies like JSON and ReST.
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By "everybody thinks locally and acts globally" are you making fun of all that old hippie shit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_globally,_act_locally
Announcement: The new official slogan is "act globally, act locally". Please update your programs.
This classic 1973 paper by W Wulf and Mary Shaw of CMU was the manifesto of the early anti-globalization movement:
As far as existential threats go: everybody thinks locally and acts globally in most, if not all of their actions.
And existential threats and mortality are difficult for people to deal with. In fact there’s a whole branch of human activity devoted to that topic (religion).
I don’t mean to reduce the significance of the risk (I dropped my other work and now work in climate repair myself) but I think there is are fascinating and instructive lessons to be learned from this example.