Pluralistic: 19 Aug 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Technological debt is insidious, a kind of socio-infrastructural subprime crisis that's unfolding around us in slow motion. Our digital infrastructure is built atop layers and layers and layers of code that's insecure due to a combination of bad practices and bad frameworks.
Hasnain says:
“Producing good data and validating data-sets are the kind of unsexy, undercompensated maintenance work that all infrastructure requires – and, as with other kinds of infrastructure, it is undervalued by journals, academic departments, funders, corporations and governments.
But all technological debts accrue punitive interest. The decision to operate on bad data because good data is in short supply isn't like looking for your car-keys under the lamp-post – it's like driving with untrustworthy brakes and a dirty windscreen.”
Posted on 2021-08-23T03:46:08+0000