Rushkoff's Call to Program
Posted by Gabriella_Mangino on Tuesday, Oct 05, 2010
Last week Douglas Rushkoff’s newest book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age was released, and with it a call to digital action. Or at least the importance of understanding a bit of what happens behind the screens our eyes are glued to daily.
He sees the culture as a whole one step behind our primary communication technology—the same way that most people were running behind on reading and writing (way back when that all got started).
In a piece up on Huffington Post last week, Rushkoff says once people being to understand the programming behind the screen, “they start to recognize the programs at play everywhere else – from the economy and education to politics and government…All systems have embedded purposes. The less we recognize them, more we mistake them for given circumstances. We start to treat the map as the territory.”
So are you being programmed?
Buy Program or be Programmed from OR Books.
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