Clive Thompson takes us inside the minds of the people who control our digital lives GlobeArts
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
In the world of Silicon Valley and its “big tech” companies, most coders are young and male. The stereotype of the “arrogant and dickish” coder is often true. Venture capitalists constantly push companies for rapid, planetwide growth. Some coders come to see their lives as David versus Goliath. They want their employer to conquer the world.
Thompson writes: “The tech firms would pepper us users with alerts, trying to interrupt doing other tasks, to get us to come back to the mother ship. They’d slap little ‘quantification’ numbers everywhere to stoke our curiosity and our desire ‘to clean things up.’ You have 14 new items in your news feed. What could they be? And they’d make all these alerts bright red, to increase the chances we’d pounce on them.”I describe our relationship with big tech as digital feudalism.
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