03.07.2008
Programming: The New Literacy
Power will soon belong to those who can master a variety of expressive human-machine interactions.
“As the century goes on, those who don’t program — who can’t bend their increasingly sophisticated computers, machines, cars, and homes to their wills and needs — will, I predict, be increasingly left behind. Parents and teachers often disrespect today’s young people for being less than literate in the old reading-and-writing sense. But in turn, these young citizens of the future have no respect for adults who can’t program a DVD player, a mobile phone, a computer, or anything else. Today’s kids already see their parents and teachers as the illiterate ones.”
Very interesting assumption. I tend to think about this subject a lot. My learning and thinking changed a lot since I learned to program or to express myself through code.
You often find yourself thinking more deeply about things you see every day. Interfaces, How did they do it? Wait, this thing is crap! How would I do it? Can I reproduce this effect?
I guess code is poetry …
