.@alicemazzy wrote a characteristically good essay about this that covers the territory better imo
https://jacobitemag.com/2017/12/05/a-priesthood-of-programmers/ …pic.twitter.com/rJJcvZpp9j
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.@alicemazzy wrote a characteristically good essay about this that covers the territory better imo
https://jacobitemag.com/2017/12/05/a-priesthood-of-programmers/ …pic.twitter.com/rJJcvZpp9j
the future belongs to coders. this has been clear since the 90s and only grows truer as time passes. our current struggles pitch the old priesthood against the new but the end is not in doubt. this is historic dialectical if you want to be marxist about it. it is inexorable
now is the time of monstershttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1449906993519464450?t=TGmHv36soG3q9p4Ia2WRcw&s=19 …
we'll always have clever knaves and ruthless killers at the top but their actions will be constrained and shaped by the tools of the priestshttps://twitter.com/OfKimbriki/status/1460215981830066177?t=-vL8RWWtTeGQ_86cNUzEyw&s=19 …
the point of becoming an Age is that you no longer *have* to be directly involved with the creation of something to use it.
lots of people rode on trains and wore machine-made clothing in the Industrial Revolution Age, but they weren't all engineers and foundrymen and sewing-mill workers...
On #3, reminds me of how media defines rich as those making a bit more than DC media personalities.
1. Software brings back generalists. Computers are universal machines
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3. No I’m consuming someone else’s software with little agency.
what i mean with 2 and 3 is that im skeptical that most people will become proficient with code, in an analogous manner to the current world where many people understand language in a basic level but for practical purposes large swathes of the population are nearly unlettered
all I know are the replit forums are a hellscape of broken english the likes that I've never known before
lol, lots of children and international kids on there. Who cares about english if they can code tho
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