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https://digitalage19.sites.grinnell.edu/uncategorized/from-operating-systems-to-marxism/ CSC 105, Spring 2019 Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:23:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://digitalage19.sites.grinnell.edu/uncategorized/from-operating-systems-to-marxism/#comment-32 Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:23:30 +0000 https://digitalage19.sites.grinnell.edu/?p=450#comment-32 I also found that our discussion Monday, as with most of our discussions, was tailor made for a liberal arts education. It has been fascinating to consider social implications of technology and the way credit is assigned within the digital era. I was also fascinated by the economic forces at play, especially because it wasn’t readily apparent to me my first read for Monday. Much credit is given to what is financially successful. In the case of the O’Reagan reading, it really felt as though he passed over some of the accomplishments of Apple to highlight Microsoft and the fact that Windows was more commercially viable, or at least permeates the market more. This is all to say that it would seem profitability is valued more than actual technological development. Something could be more groundbreaking, but too confusing for the masses to understand and suffer because of it. Basically, some developments don’t matter as much if there isn’t money to be made.

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