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I think it's arrogance. Programming has this weird allure where you think you understand the rest of the world.

• kristopolous 10y ago
  I had an epiphany about 7 years ago that computers are only collective human effort. Everything you touch is an idea, thought, and implementation by some person. Programming ought to be a rich dive into cultural consciousness, like a sociologist living with some remote tribe. Instead, we get caught up in the fetishization and marvel of the machine itself; as if it all has descended from God and is part of nature. This is a detriment against seeing our part in the flow of the giant anarchistic relay race that is technology; when we dip our feet into this moving river we are part of the river as much as a twig or a rock - disrupting and modifying the flow; placing it in new directions. But only if we empower ourselves. Technology is anywhere from a culminate expression of culture to its artifact.
  • ktRolster 10y ago
    I voted you up because, although I'm not entirely sure I agree with you, it was very eloquently said.
    • kristopolous 10y ago
      Where else does software and hardware come from? The neighbor's clever dog? Some innovative robot? It's an expression of human culture. That's why the trendiest and not the most talented people are the most successful and why we currently and have always lived in an era of very fashionable fad software that isn't very good. It quickly gets superseded like fashion on a runway because that's what it is.
      • ktRolster 10y ago
        The first paragraph is great. It's the next three that really get interesting.