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# unix & holistic technologies
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Speaker : noffle
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tag : holistic prescriptive unix web distributed node
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Every technology lies on a spectrum: prescriptive technologies, like car
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assembly lines, have dependence on large non-individual organizational
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structures in order to function; while holistic tech is self-reliant and
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depends on little, like a personal garden. Or a unix program. Most
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things lie somewhere in between.
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What the consequences of a society heavily dependent on prescriptive
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technologies? What is its cost of adoption? Where can freedom be found
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in taking control of the toolchain? Let's look at where the unix
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philosophy and the web fit in.
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8 years ago
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need travel fee : N
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8 years ago
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Location : San Jose, CA
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