From 338d9e7ef150a3aabdf65c929f3fee033b6aa4dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Nish-Lapidus Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:52:23 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] typo --- Computer Class Essay - Matt.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Computer Class Essay - Matt.md b/Computer Class Essay - Matt.md index 38b6cff..d300964 100644 --- a/Computer Class Essay - Matt.md +++ b/Computer Class Essay - Matt.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Matt Nish-Lapidus -In some ways Computer Class was born out of frustration. We are frustrated with the growing tide of so-called "AI" that further encloses and obfuscates the toolness of computing. We are frustrated by the continued locking down and corporate capture of all software. We are frustrated by how these things continue to disempower and deskill people, transforming us into consumers and the computer into an appliance. We don't have the ability to change everything all at once, but we thought that there must be something we could do, together, to experiment with other possilibities. +In some ways Computer Class was born out of frustration. We are frustrated with the growing tide of so-called "AI" that further encloses and obfuscates the toolness of computing. We are frustrated by the continued locking down and corporate capture of all software. We are frustrated by how these things continue to disempower and deskill people, transforming us into consumers and the computer into an appliance. We don't have the ability to change everything all at once, but we thought that there must be something we could do, together, to experiment with other possibilities. For quite a while Scott and I had been talking about how to bring a small group of people together to both wallow in the current state of computing and attempt to collectively imagine different ways that we can live with, and learn, computation. Now, writing this almost a year after the initial Computer Class, I feel that we have taken real first steps towards these goals, and against our shared frustrations, by thinking specifically about how we live with computation, and how we can re-learn the possibilities of computation outside of, and in opposition to, current dominant computer cultures.