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16 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
X : Is map camp happening?
Me : Yep. Plan is for Wed, Oct 13th. Three tracks using the same triad format as last year.
X : Three tracks?
Me : Yep. Three themes - sustainability, diversity and good.
X : Good?
Me : Yep. Do good. Maps for good. It's not enough to do no evil.
There has always been a strong positive approach in the mapping community. Yes, maps can be used for profit, to outwit competitors etc ... but there's more to mapping than that. There's more to society than just the economy. We need to up the tempo a bit.
X : Don't you have to define what good is?
Me : The ethics of care versus the ethics of choice, the balance between me versus we ... this is the debate we (as a collective) need to have.
X : Sponsors?
Me : Yes. We will be looking for sponsors especially for the three major themes - sustainability, diversity and good.
X : A sponsor for good?
Me : Oh yes.

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X : What's your view on bitcoin?
Me : Kidding? Still the same as it was in 2013 when I mapped the space. A payload of laissez faire, a delivery mechanism of greed.
X : So, it'll go up?
Me : Oh god. Why would anyone want this - blog.gardeviance.org/2013/11/a-spoi… ... oh yes, greed.
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X : Did you say the future is serverless.
Me : Yes and the new practices, new needs met ... but that was quite a few years ago. Why?
X : Do you think there is room for another serverless play?
Me : Oh, that war is over. In the West, it's AWS (1st), MSFT (2nd).
X : What do you mean it's over.
Me : It's over. The battle started 7 years ago, it's finished. Winners declared etc. It's just the washup now.
X : What about Kubernetes?
Me : I thought it was amazing that Amazon got a 7 year head start in IaaS ...
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One of my favourites recent maps ... Image
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Me : The same tools that allow us to radicalise, to mobilise and to manipulate online causing so much political chaos are the same tools which allow us to challenge orthodoxy in healthcare, in finance and in economics.
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X : What is the argument against national cloud?
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Me : You attempt to localise services for reasons of "sovereignty" without understanding the wider landscape then you expose yourself to new threats and weakness. Co-operation and distribution are your friends for any infrastructural service.
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X : Thoughts on digital sovereignty?
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Me : I struggle to think of a minister who was more useless. In an era of titans like Francis Maude then Cable was out of his depth and it showed.
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