The Front-End Revolution

[misscs]

"Revolutions don't happen when society adopts new technologies, they happen when society adopts new behaviors." - Clay Shirky

This is a talk explores events in the history of front-end development have lead to the bouleversement within the field. Despite what you may think, the revolution has nothing to do with the tools and technology. Twitter adoption isn't what started the Arab Spring; Node isn't responsible for JavaScripts renaissance; and Wikipedia's most significant accomplishment has nothing to do with the fact they are one of the most visited and trusted sites and completely human powered.

We'll look at social sciences, research in network theory, and research on organizing to show how it directly correlates it to the growth patterns in front end development and design in addition to:

• The new behaviors we've adopted because of our new technology
• How what we've accomplished can set the ground for our next challenges which are less about code and more about people-to-people—diversity, access to opportunities, betterment of our world and community...thing you can't build an app for
• Retrospective of front-end development
  • Why jQuery succeeded and what it paved for other front-end languages like Sass
  • Networking Theories: What makes tech so resilient and how to keep on a sustainable growth path
• Speculations on design/ui/ux's revolution
• Organizing: The value of coming together

[feross]

This talk sounds fascinating!
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:37 PM claudina sarahe [email protected]
wrote:

"Revolutions don't happen when society adopts new technologies, they
happen when society adopts new behaviors." - Clay Shirky

This is a talk explores events in the history of front-end development
have lead to the bouleversement within the field. Despite what you may
think, the revolution has nothing to do with the tools and technology.
Twitter adoption isn't what started the Arab Spring; Node isn't responsible
for JavaScripts renaissance; and Wikipedia's most significant
accomplishment has nothing to do with the fact they are one of the most
visited and trusted sites and completely human powered.

We'll look at social sciences, research in network theory, and research on
organizing to show how it directly correlates it to the growth patterns in
front end development and design in addition to:

• The new behaviors we've adopted because of our new technology
• How what we've accomplished can set the ground for our next
  challenges which are less about code and more about
  people-to-people—diversity, access to opportunities, betterment of our
  world and community...thing you can't build an app for
• Retrospective of front-end development
  • Why jQuery succeeded and what it paved for other front-end
    languages like Sass
  • Networking Theories: What makes tech so resilient and how to keep
    on a sustainable growth path
    • Speculations on design/ui/ux's revolution
• Organizing: The value of coming together

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