Malta's Reality

Far from being a great tech center, it shows the freedom of rural life.

March 15, 2005

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All Hand Coded: I enjoy coding things myself despite all the extra work it creates.

Am I Old Fashioned? Thoughts on Change: Andrew writes about his thoughts on a changing world.

As A Computer Programmer: One of a series of essays on different carrer options and what they entail.

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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.

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In a Computerized World: Are We Humans Anymore?: Andrew asks if in a computer dominated world, if being a person means anything anymore.

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...

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.

Malta's Reality

I was in Malta the other day. The town where the great Technology Park is planned, the place that is center of a controversy over a Walmart, and the town where horse manure rules where defeated. It was interesting going to Malta, and seeing a reality much different then what is often discussed on television.

There was an incredible amount of poverty and trailer parks in the Malta and Clifton Park areas. From the news though, you would think that this was a booming high-tech center. That could not be farther from the truth. It was a place of rural life and farms, with occasional rural mansions dotting the landscape. It was a place of open space with all the things you'd expect from rural society: dairy farms, wood burners, horse farms, trailer parks, and junk yards.

The beauty of this area, unknown to me enchanted me. I have been over the Northway dozens of times, yet never bothered to travel far enough away from it to see beauty reveling what I see in my backyard of the Hilltowns. Amazing!

I can only hope that Malta does not become what part of Clifton Park is today: suburbs and big box stores. Malta enjoys little crime, and a free life of pickup trucks, guns, and farms. Let's hope for Malta's sake that Sprawlmart doesn't come there, and the Tech Park stays away.