[BRIEF NOTE] CFTAG Report
May. 23rd, 2006 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonald(Yes, I know this happened two days ago. Life's been busy.)
Attendance at Sunday's CFTAG meeting was decent and the meeting itself was quite enjoyable. We can attest that the lunch specials at Sushi on Bloor (515 Bloor Street West) are good, for instance, and that 1980s animated series imported from Japan like Robotech and Voltron can stand up surprisingly well. One especially interesting conversation related to the existence of legacy systems in the modern world, of built-in inefficiencies persisting because they are built-in, persisting and even triumphing over better standards because of inertia. Consider how the Minitel in France delayed the expansion of the technologically superior Internet in that country, or how ASCII emerged as a standard because of its direct development from the Baudot code used by telegraphists and despite the contemporary superiority of IBM's ERCDIC. Different pathways of information technology development were possible from the Industrial Revolution on, we agreed, but somehow, we also agreed, they would converge on densely-saturated environments like the ones that we're developing alkl with their own different inefficiencies.
Attendance at Sunday's CFTAG meeting was decent and the meeting itself was quite enjoyable. We can attest that the lunch specials at Sushi on Bloor (515 Bloor Street West) are good, for instance, and that 1980s animated series imported from Japan like Robotech and Voltron can stand up surprisingly well. One especially interesting conversation related to the existence of legacy systems in the modern world, of built-in inefficiencies persisting because they are built-in, persisting and even triumphing over better standards because of inertia. Consider how the Minitel in France delayed the expansion of the technologically superior Internet in that country, or how ASCII emerged as a standard because of its direct development from the Baudot code used by telegraphists and despite the contemporary superiority of IBM's ERCDIC. Different pathways of information technology development were possible from the Industrial Revolution on, we agreed, but somehow, we also agreed, they would converge on densely-saturated environments like the ones that we're developing alkl with their own different inefficiencies.
