douglas rushoff

we are attempting to operate our society on obsolete code
if we don't understand programs in our computers, we don't stand a chance understanding how

how much is the bias of the medium and how much is the bias of the programmers, we won't know until we understand how our technologies work on us

if you are not a programmer, you become passive to the game

we got text, and the ability/tech to read, and we get the ability of the generation before
printing press, generation of writers? no, civilization of readers and an elite of writers
get computers, great generation of programmers, no, a nation of bloggers
now we have the great ability to write, but we don't know how to program, we write in the box that google gives us
issue - at each state when we get a new medium, civilization is one stage/generation/iteration behind

this one is bigger, programming is even bigger than the printing press, it's as big as text
it's important for people to be able to contend with the biases..

it's an amazing moment where we can begin to program money and society,
but we need to understand both, the programs we're using to do it and the meme sets, the codes, the symbols, if we don't create a society that at least knows there's a thing called programming, then we will end up being not the programmers, the users, and worse, the used.




via @VanessaMiemis 's post

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