Program Or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
- ISBN-10
- 1935928155
- ISBN-13
- 9781935928157
- Category
- Computer programming
- Pages
- 149
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- OR Books
- Author
- Douglas Rushkoff
Description
Is the internet good or bad? How can technology be directed? In this spirited, accessible poetics of new media, Rushkoff picks up where Marshall McLuhan left off, helping readers come to recognise programming as the new literacy of the digital age and as a template through which to see beyond social conventions and power structures that have vexed us for centuries. This is a friendly little book with a big and actionable message.
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