![]() ![]() And more cynically because diversity in employment has now to some extent been proven to be profitable. I have a lot of trust in our global fight for equality for women and all forms of diversity in the workplace, that is thankfully unstoppable because we have actively worked on addressing unconscious bias in those domains. People like people like themselves, and that includes age based on seniority and life experiences and as a result specific technology issues are worked on and/or decided by similar aged people as the Social Network (pictured) film excellently portrayed as did the subsequent hilarious geriatric Senate Committee questioning of Zuckerberg. Obviously not that simple, but neither does putting some corporate executive in a sports jacket and jeans discount their "technology bias" age by 10-15 years. Certain technology domains are naturally dominated by age, Mainframe - Boomers, Distributed - GenX, Cloud - GenY and all the new stuff - Gen Z. How many decisions have been swayed one way or another by the "workers" doing the evaluations against the "owners" and the bias they have or technology decisions and approvals resulting from "owner" sponsored corporate lobbying and the profit bias against the recommendations of the "workers".įinally ageism, the fact we openly cluster generations (I'm an proud X'er) is in itself an issue. Almost every large tech company supports openness but at the same time stands to lose value for shareholders by not being propriety. But if we keep a light view on it then consider Berners-Lee's Internet, Torwald's Linux, the Open Source Community, Nakamoto's Bitcoin and the Agile Manifesto Thinkers (pictured) we can see a strong willingness of "revolutionaries" to keep technology in the hands of the many and away from the few. Then consider Socialism, now as a Glaswegian living in Sweden the term has nothing but positive connotations for me, but elsewhere just the mention can cause a cold sweat - just take reaction to Senator Warren's call for the break up of big tech in the US as part of her 2020 campaign.
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