The difference between a computer programmer and a user is much less like that between a mechanic and a driver than it is like the difference between a driver and a passenger. If you choose to be a passenger, then you must trust that your driver is taking you where you want to go. Or that he's even telling you the truth about what's out there. You're like Miss Daisy, getting driven from place to place. Only the car has no windows and if the driver tells you there's only one supermarket in the county, you have to believe him. The more you live like that, the more dependent on the driver you become, and the more tempting it is for the driver to exploit his advantage.
Like computer program. That's what they do. You can relegate your programming to others, but then you have to trust them that their programs are really doing what you're asking, and in a way that is in your best interests. And the longer you live this way, the less access you have to the knowledge that it could be any other way, or that you ever had a choice in the matter.
Yes, this has happened before in very many ways. Many of the "programs" in our lives now appear to be given circumstances, from the kind of money we use to our dependence on the automobile. We no longer question their existence or the ways in which they impact our lives because it seems to us they have always been here. They're just part of the fabric of our reality. (Program or Be Programmed, Douglas Rushkoff)
Every time I do one of my visual podcast shows I create a huge amount of artwork. And when I pulled the Cosmic Trigger with Douglas Rushkoff, I put in work. So I decided to turn all that into something. So there are going to be an ongoing series of my digital artwork & notes from the Douglas Rushkoff show:
