Permacomputing

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Computing to support life on Earth

Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

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Dune is not anti-tech… | technology under capitalism (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Interesting look into Dune and the Luddites, and how technology can take two forms. Apropos permacomputing I think.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is so funny that people think that Dune is anti tech, when in the books it is the teaching of a aristrocatic cult trying to bread an ubermensch using systematic killing and controlling marriages, while running the galaxy by creating and spreading religions. But a lot of people are like, Herbert must be anti tech, he made the space nazis say it is evil.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, the inevitable negative consequences of achieving a superhuman and building a religion around him are also explicitly talked about in the books. Even with good intentions, Paul is the center of a maelstrom of violence