Spencer Cooley

Everybody should learn to code, he says, because machine/human and machine/machine interaction is becoming as ubiquitous as human/human interaction. Those who don’t know how to code soon will be in the same position as those who couldn’t read or write 200 years ago.

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Paul Higgins: Otto . My first instinct was ” one more thing to learn, not sure I have the energy”. That is from someone interested in technology and the future. Does that mean a whole lot of people get left behind?

Computer Programming for All: A New Standard of Literacy (via courtenaybird)

I have thought a lot about this and think it is true to a certain extent.  If you don’t know what an api is or even what a server is then I think you will be in a little bit of trouble in the future. The internet will be broken up into two groups of people; the ones that know how to use the internet, and the ones who know how to use facebook. 

(via emergentfutures)

dstorey:

The Open Web has never had as many capabilities as it has today. We’re seeing an explosion in new or updated specifications, and prototype and stable implementations to go with them. This blog post will look back as the platform we have had available (Called Open Web 0 here) and then looks forward…

(Source: dstorey)