Ten Commandments, well, 4!

In Progammer or be Programmed, by Douglas Rushkoff, the last four chapters seems to be explained for people who fall into the digital divide. The seventh command, Social, talks about social connection through Facebook and Twitter and all the other ones they have to offer. For people that fall in the digital divide don’t really get that social connection like the average teenagers would through social networks. “Digital networks are biased toward social connections, toward contact,” (99). Instead of them having notifications that their tweets or likes are new, they settle for more of contact face to face. Rushkoff’s 8th command is Fact, which is that the internet is mostly truthful. For a limited time, people can post whatever they want whether it is true or not, being that it is a ‘fact.’ It can only be a fact for so long until it is validated or dismissed. For those who fall into the digital divide have no access to the internet so they get their facts right from the source. The 9th command is openness. This command states that the internet is “biased toward openness” and that we should share our creations, (121). It is basically like writing a paper and plagiarizing. They can only share and create so much to the point where they realize it is plagiarism. The last command is Purpose. Rushkoff suggests that we, even those who fall into the digital divide, should know coding so that we can create programs with meaning. He suggests this so that we don’t just take credit for what the internet found for us. For those who fall unto digital divide can’t create this if they’re stuck on ‘face to face’ contact.