Programming

via Marshall McLuhan

• Communications theorist (philosopher) active 1950s-80s
• Credited with predicting the internet in the 1960s
• "War is never anything less than accelerated technological change"
• Every new technology (medium) that comes about affects the scope and scale of human interaction
• Humans are the servo-mechanisms of the  technologies they employ.
• The myth of Narcissus is not about self-absorption -- 
• Societies organized around existing technologies are horrible at coping with the advent of new technologies
• The only person suited to help a society deal with the advent of a new technology is the artist.

Developers as Simplifiers

Programmers as Artists

• Engineers are artists: Da Vinci, Architects
• Do something once you're a scientist, twice 
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