Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Era

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We continue to accept new technologies into our lives with little or no understanding of how these devices work and work on us. We do not know how to program our computers, nor do we care. We spend much more time and energy trying to figure out how to use them to program one another, instead. And this is a potentially grave mistake.

Just as the invention of text utterly transformed human society, disconnecting us from much of what we held sacred, our migration to the digital realm will also require a new template for maintaining our humanity. In this talk, Rushkoff will share the biases of digital media, and what that means for how we should use them.

About Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff is the author, most recently, of Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, and Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back. He has published ten bestselling books about media, society and change, that have been translated to over thirty languages. He lectures around the world, makes Frontline documentaries – including The Merchants of Cool – and teaches at NYU and the New School University. He is best known as the originator of the terms media virus, social currency, and digital natives, as well as for applying open source principles to government, religion, and economics.

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