🚀 go-pugleaf

>Sort of.  Personally, I doubt any group we could assemble would be
>large/loud enough to make a jot of difference.  As they say in Africa,
>when the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.  What we have
>to do (somehow!) is to adjust the balance of power so that the process
>becomes consumer- rather than producer- driven. This means gravitating
>away from market forces toward "purely technical" natural selectors for
>technological evolution.

This assumes that "purely technical" natural selectors will
automatically choose what all the consumers want.  The trouble is that
it's not clear that all customers want the *same* thing in all cases,
and that the folks making the "purely technical" selections happen to
agree with the consumers.  I'm extremely loath to make either of those
assumptions....