The reality of bureaucratic thought in our society.
May 4, 2005
1968: The Start of the Technological Revolution: When did the tech revolution really start?
Affordable Rural Broadband: Some high speed access is out in the country, but it's expensive.
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.
Bureaucracies Have Political Cultures: Despite the image of apolitical life in bureaucracy, the people who make government work are often very political.
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.
DTV: Time To Get Rid of Your TV?: They won't work next year, so recycle 'em, and look to other sources of news.
Email and Spam: Many of us just get too much useless information but at least we don't have to dispose of it.
Highly Urbanized Computing: How Windows XP is not unlike our big cities.
Hudson Valley Not Tech Valley: Our future is in diversity, not technology.
In a Computerized World: Are We Humans Anymore?: Andrew asks if in a computer dominated world, if being a person means anything anymore.
Malta's Reality: Far from being a great tech center, it shows the freedom of rural life.
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.
There are many things that are the result of mass-society and the mamouth bueacracies that employ, govern, and produce to products for the society. The ultimate result is nothing less then a denial of the self, waste, and environmental degregation. For example, bureacracy denies the self through:
This is a simplification of the biggest problem of bureacracy, namely the denial of the self. Yet those five items say a lot of what most large agencies and corproations face. The net result is us acting in ways that are:
All of these three things are increadibly destructive. We must try to divide agencies and corporations up more effectively and inspire people by empowering them to actively create and revise their own policies. Elimating rules will ultimately make us more free, and make people as though they have more power. And finally, we must remember that all policies are generated by humans and not machines. An insitution's policy must ultimately fall in the lap of somebody, and it's best that the person has regular interaction with the governed.
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