Program or be programmed

See also: teaching-digital-technologies

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Rushkoff (2010)

Digital technology is programmed. This makes it biased toward those with the capacity to write the code. (p. 128)

But not everyone can (or every software be) programmed, leading to the situation

…instead of optimizing our machines for humanity – or even the benefit of some particular group – we are optimizing humans for machinery. (p. 15)

References

Rushkoff, D. (2010). Program or be programmed: Ten commands for a digital age. OR Books.