"OCT 14, 2019 • 8:00 PM"
"Culturally, code exists in a nether zone.
We can feel its gnostic effects [link added]
on our everyday reality, but we rarely see it,
and it’s quite inscrutable to non-initiates.
(The folks in Silicon Valley like it that way;
it helps them self-mythologize as wizards.)
We construct top-10 lists for movies, games, TV—
pieces of work that shape our souls.
But we don’t sit around compiling lists of the world’s
most consequential bits of code, even though they
arguably inform the zeitgeist just as much."
— https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/
consequential-computer-code-software-history.html
