At the Computers & Society Speaker Series at the Courant Institute NYU on Nov 3 2010.
Douglas Rushkoff @ 15. Deutscher Trendtag Hamburg
Astra Taylor and Laura Hanna, the filmmakers behind Zizek! just put this short video together to help promote the ideas in Program or Be Programmed.
Richard Metzger, Dangerous Minds:
Is the Net good or bad for us? That’s beside the point: it’s here; it’s everywhere. In “Program or Be Programmed”, Rushkoff tells readers the real question is, do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it? “Choose the former,” writes Rushkoff, “and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Choose the latter, and it could be the last real choice you get to make.”
Programming is the new literacy of the digital age––and a template through which to see beyond social conventions and power structures that have vexed us for centuries.
Douglas Rushkoff @ SXSW 2010: Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age (via sxsw)
