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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: how to get people to our 2600 meeting?

alternative_right writes: Years ago, we had a large and exciting group at Houston 2600: hobbyists of all sorts, each with their own interests and active projects or at least fascinations. Then COVID-19 hit and people stopped coming. Now, it seems the audience are staying home, and the only people sporadically showing up are interested in talking about the latest hacking tools to use for their future careers in computer security, or a group of wannabe hackers who seem to have no curiosity about anything other than money. Where are the hobbyists, and how do we get them to join us and share some excitement about technology? Or did Big Tech and social media finally manage to kill that?

Comment Re:Idiocracy feels more like the current society (Score 1) 103

The problem is that as soon as you prevent some groups from voting, that possibility will get abused some time later and hence that makes things worse.

A successful democracy requires an educated, tuned in populace that can be bothered to learn the issues and vote accordingly.

Sure. But nobody knows how to create that. And those on power often have motivation to work in the opposite direction. I think the first rule would need to be that anybody that wants power is to be regarded as unfit and needs to be prevented from ever getting power. But how would that work in practice?

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