It certainly looks like all the raw materials are in-place and the cooking temperature just right, so maybe a revolution is looming. But somehow I can't see it cooking like the smartphone revolution did.

Perhaps we omitted one factor in our analysis: this revolution has the potential to emancipate and not to enslave. Being totally bottom-up, terms like "jailbreak" and "appstore" will become meaningless and rightly so.

Encapsulation breaking up is bad news for anyone out there watching. It's different to have a smartphone prepare a nice report on user's activity and sent to big sister compared to each chip on an arduino doing that separately. Can't wait to see a backdoor in a resistor, or a capacitor phoning-home - when they appear it will be the end for the NSA. Because harvesting can be equally easy but aggregating information, getting the bigger picture out will be much more difficult (orders of magnitude) in this revolution.

And so it will never happen, I say, except in the fringe/margin/background/underground. But I am all for it and I am happy to see more Pi(+Perl) activity.

In reply to Re^5: Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it? by bliako
in thread Is Perl on the Raspberry Pi worth it? by stevieb

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