WATCH THIS NOW // Douglas Rushkoff On The Importance Of Learning To Program

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Why should you, you ask? Well, these days computer programming is a valuable and increasingly critical skill, not just for those who want to make a career out of it, but for anyone living in today's increasingly technology-oriented world. Author and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff laid out this argument in full in his 2010 book Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. He offers a shorter but no less enlightening version in this video of a talk that he gave at SXSW Interactive:

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