Sunday, October 9, 2011

douglas rushkoff

more from program or be programmed:

time - don't always be on
space - live in person
choice - digital pushes us to make choices, need to remember,
we always have the choice to make no choice at all
our choices arrow our world, as the infinity of possibility is lost in the translation to binary code
withholding choice is not death. quite on the contrary it is one of the few things distinguishing life from its digital imitators
complexity - you are never completely right
in a digital culture that values data points (not everything is a data point) over context, everyone comes to believe they have the real answer and that the other side is crazy or evil.