Andrew writes about his thoughts on a changing world.
February 12, 2003
Affordable Rural Broadband: Some high speed access is out in the country, but it's expensive.
All Hand Coded: I enjoy coding things myself despite all the extra work it creates.
As A Computer Programmer: One of a series of essays on different carrer options and what they entail.
Bureaucracies Have Political Cultures: Despite the image of apolitical life in bureaucracy, the people who make government work are often very political.
Bureaucracy: It's Problems: The reality of bureaucratic thought in our society.
Canned Reality: A discussion of video games, and television, and their effects on society.
Criticizing Technological Rationality: A careful analyisis of role of technology and bureaucratic rationality on the world around us.
DTV: Time To Get Rid of Your TV?: They won't work next year, so recycle 'em, and look to other sources of news.
Email and Spam: Many of us just get too much useless information but at least we don't have to dispose of it.
Highly Urbanized Computing: How Windows XP is not unlike our big cities.
Hudson Valley Not Tech Valley: Our future is in diversity, not technology.
Malta's Reality: Far from being a great tech center, it shows the freedom of rural life.
Nation of Managers: Management is not a solution to our problems.
Post-Modernity: Five areas of study that allow us to see beyond the limits of science and technology.
Running out of Freedom: It sometimes seems like that I've seen everything locally (eventhough I haven't), and that finding cgreener pastures is getting harder.
Simplicity: For the Web, For the World: Simple webpages present information quickly. A simple world makes sure we get that infomation.
Tech Valley Realities: High Tech in Albany won't just give us jobs, it will also change cultures and increase sprawl.
The Endless Freedom Assault of our Technocratic Society: How somehow our fixes to our problems may actually make things worst.
The Parthenon: Technology and Politics: Reviewing the relationship between technology, politics, and a greater society.
The Story of the Non-Programmer: Sometimes thinking about who you have been, can take the stress off a rough day, and the bad memories that a class may bring back.
Tired of Computers? I Don't Think I'm Alone.: After a long semister of dealing with them, and doing lots of school work, he's just plain tired...
Twitter: A fun way to share what your doing with the world.
Webpages: Keep 'em Simple: We need to have simple webpages that load quickly.
Wireless Internet: Free hotspots make it possible for us to access high speed internet without cost.
Am I old fashioned? Many people have accused me of this in the past. Change is good when it empowers a person, it is bad when disempowers a person. Where I am benefiting from a system, I am certainly in no rush to change it. I'm not going to run out there, ask for legislation to make it illegal for me to drive a car, make it harder for me to find a job, or do away with parkland that I enjoy. If it benefits me then I will want things to stay the same.
Positive change is often obvious. A cut or keeping SUNY tution the same would be good for me. Building faster roads and raising the speed limit, would also be something I support. Technology that makes pickup trucks more efficent, also would be something I totally support, as it would save me money when I finally can afford a real truck.
Negative change is something that doesn't benifit me, but instead hurts me. These could be new limits on freedom, such as regulations that make it difficult to do a favorite activity. Likewise, negative change might be nosey neighboors trying to watch what I am doing constantly.
I advocate change, but only if it is for the better for me as an individual. Ultimately, I am a self interested person, and as I such I hope for change in my own interest.
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