The whole world is a big place where cultures form and meet. So are nations, countries, and people, too, who are all made up of different stances and beliefs. The cyberspace we know today reflects a sea of different cultures and ideologies, which have been stitched by hope in a bittersweet, social and political journey for decades.
If humans and nations are still upholding to their ideologies, so are computer software, hardware, and systems, which are also made by them, and in most cases, to serve them. In fact, ideology is the reason why we build products, and why we try to destroy products. And without ideology, there will be no reason why people, governments, and corporations would do things like Big Data, blockchain, DRM, Internet censorship, surveillance capitalism, and so on.
While we acknowledge that we cannot satisfy all sorts of people, we still believe that upholding multiculturalism amongst computer systems will improve our society, that is, by welcoming more and more user communities with differing-yet-conflicting beliefs to bond together with us. When we mean “us”, it could be two things. First is definitely Reinhart P. K. with all his bots and human friends, but the second is even better: across communities who finally decided to share despite all the differences. This is multiculturalism, but amongst computer systems established in the world today.
The nation of Indonesia have historically proven that multiculturalism can be achieved in a self-respecting and responsible manner. One of those is the inclusion of the Sanskrit phrase, “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika”, as a national slogan on the Republic of Indonesia.
“Interface In Polymorphism”, one of our favorite slogans, takes the original “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika” into the realm of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), an important component of an Indonesian coffee-inspired programming language which happens to be a significant language in the world of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
That’s the beauty of computer system multiculturalism. That is, the power of #InterfaceInPolymorphism.
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