First Impressions are important!

Why subject myself to the inevitability of online ridicule praise? I think it’s unfortunately very important to engage in online discourse about the current state of technology and matters. Before you click away - let me defend my statement. As developers, and especially with international affairs and events seem to constantly reinforce the ever-growing echo-chamber we find ourselves in!

Unless we really, one on one engage with other people (instead of trying to play digital detective and to snoop a commented interaction) there’s no way to avoid astro-turfing. It’s too easy, and in fact, too widespread to take online opinion and perspective as truth. Money buys opinion and favor - the more funds someone is able to contribute to advertising, there’s more of an audience of bots to persuade them to use the next frontier in technology.

I may be a little fringe in my belief of how prevalent this is, but as time continues and artificially intelligent start-ups that dictate mass automation of natural language personalities, it’s only a matter of time before we have a mass infiltration of advertising agents amongst us, if not already.

Truthfully, I am not that pessimistic of the future. Astroturfing is scary, and prevalent, but not that extreme. Most of the time, it’s easy to see if someone is a shill without a sleuth! The truth of the matter lies therein completing university and fidning myself with,

1. More free time, and

2. Still an obligation to productivity ingrained deep into my psyche.

I must spend a good deal of my time dedicated to productivity, and furthering my education and curiosity. My fringe theories and localized nerd philosophies aside, I do actually think it necessary to talk amongst a local crowd of passionate people - to avoid furthering pixie dream protocols dreamed up by privately funded program pirates, stay savvy and let’s keep our code in our crew. Arr!