[FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

[Marcus Daniels]

"I daily chat with pioneers in tech fields, most of whom are not in my state or even my country .. if I can call it mine any more. And we get along just fine and the whole is greater than the some of its parts."


If the activity is commercial, then one could imagine that new protectionist policies could make it harder for you to perform financial transactions with your collaborators.   You may instead be incentivized to work with domestic collaborators even if they are inferior or less appropriate.  You could try to sidestep the issue with Bitcoin, but then you are taking legal risks.


Marcus

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 7:10:50 PM
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Subject: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

With all our concerns about Trump, and the article on 8 European populist ..  10 if you include US and Brexit
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/05/world/europe/populism-in-age-of-trump.html
.. I oddly got thinking about "our" kind of globalism: the Friam & WedTech lists, and open source Open Source Software and global communication.

I daily chat with pioneers in tech fields, most of whom are not in my state or even my country .. if I can call it mine any more. And we get along just fine and the whole is greater than the some of its parts.

I use GitHub to ask for an improvement in a software library. I use twitter to ask a question of a technologist. I store my data world wide, often which moves to be closer to the consumer. There are no walls, and there is a lot of cooperation. My world I guess is not Populist.

I don't think that can be easily broken, but certainly Northern Korea has done it, as have some others. US?

Don't most of us have the same experiences: Travel, co-workers, global facilities and so on? That at least is a ray of hope.

   -- Owen


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