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Author: Ville-Matias Heikkila <viznut@low.fi>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 11:53:45 +0300
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Ideas and examples
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-* **Siliconization** is a concept that is used in Romania to
+* **[[Siliconization]]** is a concept that is used in Romania to
refer to how their local technocultural practices
("șmecherie") were replaced by an imported "silicon valley"
- model in the 1990s. This phenomenon was particularly
- prominent in Eastern European countries after the fall of the
- USSR, but similar replacements also took place in many other
- countries at this time. In Western Europe, this era is often
- connected to the marginalization of the earlier home computer
- cultures by a "Wintel" monoculture and the normalization of
- constant hardware "up"grades.
+ model in the 1990s.
* Eriksson and Pargman have suggested the use of
**counterfactual history** as a tool to imagine computing
futures. It is often difficult for students and other people
diff --git a/siliconization.mdwn b/siliconization.mdwn
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+**Siliconization** refers to how local technocultural practices all around
+the world have been replaced by an imported "Silicon Valley" model,
+especially since the [[1990s|history]].
+
+This phenomenon was particularly prominent in Eastern European countries
+after the fall of the USSR. The term was originally used in Romania to refer
+how their local practices ("șmecherie") were obsoleted at this time. It is
+also a near-anagram of "colonization".
+
+Similar developments also took place in many other countries at this time.
+In Western Europe, this era is often connected to the marginalization of the
+earlier home computer cultures by a "Wintel" [[monoculture]] and the
+normalization of constant hardware "up"grades.
+
+The spread of [[Californian ideology]] is closely connected with
+siliconization.
+
+External links:
+
+* [Corruption, Șmecherie, and Siliconization: Retrospective and Speculative Technoculture in Postsocialist Romania](https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/32905)
