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When human beings acquired language,

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we didn't just learn to listen,

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we learned how to speak.

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When human beings acquired text,

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we learned not just how to read,

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but how to write.

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and now that we've acquired computers,

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we should learn not just how to use them,

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but how to program them.

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Back in the 1980's

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learning to use a computer was the same thing as

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learning to program one.

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but as computers got easier to use and more user-friendly

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the distance between using a computer

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and knowing how it works got longer and wider

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until we had extremely opaque interfaces

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through which you do what the program says

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without any idea of what's actually going on behind the screen

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Ask any kid what facebook is for

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and he'll tell you facebook is here to help me make friends.

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no. they're looking to figure out how to monetize people's relationships

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if you don't know what the software you're using is for

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then you're not using it, but being used by it.

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back when I first got on the internet

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I saw networking as the next great leap in human evolution

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we were moving towards a new networked organism

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and I'm amazed at how few of us have actually decided to participate

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in this product

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in the digital age or in any age for that matter

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who ever holds the keys to programming ends up building the reality

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in which the rest of us live

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thanks to these technologies

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we now have the ability to remake our economy, our education

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our government

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even our religions

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if we don't seize the opportunity to remake our world

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I promise you someone or something else

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will do it for us