Tuesday, October 4, 2011

douglas rushkoff

program or be programmed:


thinking itself is no longer—at least no longer exclusively—a personal activity.

Rushkoff, Douglas; Leland Purvis (2010-11-01). Program or Be Programmed (Kindle Locations 111-112). OR Books. Kindle Edition.


People are being reduced to externally configurable nervous systems, while computers are free to network and think in more advanced ways than we ever will. The human response, if humanity is going to make this leap along with our networked machines, must be a wholesale reorganization of the way we operate our work, our schools, our lives, and ultimately our nervous systems in this new environment. “Interior
Rushkoff, Douglas; Leland Purvis (2010-11-01). Program or Be Programmed (Kindle Locations 113-116). OR Books. Kindle Edition. 

There is a place for humanity—for you and me—in the new cybernetic order.

Rushkoff, Douglas; Leland Purvis (2010-11-01). Program or Be Programmed (Kindle Locations 122-123). OR Books. Kindle Edition.