http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2006/12/08/code/ one more line crossed, one more mystery explained Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:41:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2006/12/08/code/#comment-627 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:17:47 +0000 http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2006/12/08/code/#comment-627 [...] Architectures of control is a brilliant set of essays on code as law. Code as law is of course an interesting subject for programmers, because we are sometimes called upon to deliberately make products defective in order to satisfy outmoded business models (luckily the companies I work have not asked me to do this). But as code and technology infects the physical world, we are now seeing code as law affecting every day activities, sometimes where it is definitely not wanted, other times when it most certainly is wanted. [...] […] Architectures of control is a brilliant set of essays on code as law. Code as law is of course an interesting subject for programmers, because we are sometimes called upon to deliberately make products defective in order to satisfy outmoded business models (luckily the companies I work have not asked me to do this). But as code and technology infects the physical world, we are now seeing code as law affecting every day activities, sometimes where it is definitely not wanted, other times when it most certainly is wanted. […]

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