A Remarkable Thing About The Silicon Valley

Services Like Google And Facebook Only Exist Because Of The Social Acceptance Of A Mass Amount Of Distributed Volunteer Labor From Tons And Tons Of People.

We Should Treat Computers As Fancy Telephones, Whose Purpose Is To Connect People.... As Long As We Remember That We Ourselves Are The Source Of Our Value, Our Creativity, Our Sense Of Reality, Then All Of Our Work With Computers Will Be Worthwhile And Beautiful.

Software Breaks Before It Bends, So It Demands Perfection In A Universe That Prefers Statistics.

What Is Extraordinary Is That In The United States The Current Culture Desires Feelings Of Machismo And Power, But At The Same Time Has Absolutely No Taste Whatsoever For Even The Slightest Loss Or Bloodshed Or Ickiness. That's A Fascinating Combination.

When Developers Of Digital Technologies Design A Program That Requires You To Interact With A Computer As If It Were A Person, They Ask You To Accept In Some Corner Of Your Brain That You Might Also Be Conceived Of As A Program.