[2023-01-12 18:50]

We all use operating systems in our daily life. They make the inanimate animate. A piece of hardware without an OS is dead for the most part. There is no partial functionality of hardware if the OS is dead.

But what this also means is that operating systems have a larger role to play in our lives.

Can a OS change your life?

Will you be the orienter of your change or will the OS change you?

I feel these question describes what makes an OS important to any one person. Think about how different you would be without an OS in your life? And by this I mean an OS that is not closed source. What aspects of you life would change? what opportunities would you have access to you? I feel that there is a distinct lack of access to open operating systems in the global south. This means that people live in a one sided computing world as end users. Never tinkering, creating or exploring.

This one sided nature of technology closes off these peoples perspective in terms of what technology can do. You never see how the cake is made, yours is to only consume it. And further you will consume it according to how you are told to, and pay for seconds. An extended life of this nature will alienate large groups of tech illiterate people. They will move further and further away from true access. I can only imagine what the world has in store for them.