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When we realize that coding is a creative act, we not only value that part of the coder’s labor, but we also realize that the technologies in which we swim have assumptions and ideologies behind them that, perhaps, we should challenge. Michael Widner in “First Stanford code poetry slam reveals the literary side of computer code”,…
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towerofsleep: Learning to Live With MoMA | Blog | Frieze Publishing Rather than wishing beyond hope that MoMA will change, then, now is time to learn how to live with MoMA – the way we live with a broken healthcare system, say, or climate change. We can all imagine better ways to manage healthcare or…
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lifeandcode: nst-online: California regulator seeks to shut down ‘learn to code’ bootcamps So is this like food vendors setting up shop out on the street and just getting to selling? Many industries lobby for regulations that limit the number of people who can do a certain kind of work as a way of keeping prices…
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emergentfutures: Your Next Job Application Could Involve a Video Game Brynjolfsson is advising one start-up that hopes to revolutionize what might be called the human-capital-allocation market. The company, Knack, uses video games as a screening device to determine how creative, cautious, adept at multitasking or easily distracted, among other attributes, potential job applicants are. Its…