Hi Alex,
Interesting questions, also difficult ones unfortunately...
On 16 March 2011 09:25, alex <alex_at_idoia.com> wrote:
> I am looking for references to support the idea behind which the act of programming :
> - help to become and stay conscious of the virtual environment, of its possibilities and of its limits,
Don't know much about this but maybe it's interesting to think of
everything as being a virtual environment, as human perception gives
us a strange view of the world anyway... E.g. Owen Holland has nice
ideas about consciousness being a simulation of ourselves interacting
with a simulation of the world.
http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/owen/
> - help to build a "self" as a child would do when starting to talk and communicate with others,
Maybe "second self" by Sherry Turkle is interesting, although it is from 1984:
http://library.nu/docs/UJ97VPO6SN/The%20Second%20Self%3A%20Computers%20and%20the%20Human%20Spirit%2C%20Twentieth%20Anniversary%20Edition
> - help to some other social progress I guess,
The work of groups like mysociety?
http://www.mysociety.org/ Hacktivism maybe?
I wrote a bit about the benefits of programming and the corporations
that are trying to make it more or less illegal here:
http://yaxu.org/the-joy-of-interpretation/
alex
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