“Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.”
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Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
