strypey,
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"Ubiquity, like great power, requires of us great responsibility. It changes our duties, and it changes the kind of people we have to be to meet those duties. It is no longer enough for hackers to think like explorers and artists and revolutionaries; now we have to be civil engineers as well, and identify with the people who keep the sewers unclogged and the electrical grid humming and the roads mended."

#EricRaymond, 2018

https://web.archive.org/web/20230204130351/http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4196

#hackers #CivilEngineering #SoftwareEngineers

strypey,
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A couple of years earlier, Nadia Egbel published 'Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure':

https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-reports/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure/

Linking this again because it's such as an important report and I'm reminding myself I need to read beyond the executive summary. Maybe I need to print it at the library?

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