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RE: CodeSchool announced FREE WEEKEND for all paid courses! Here you can find my review 4 their courses about GIT - technology which every programmer should know.
And even paying for some good courses is all worth it! Coding is an important skill today.
Exactly! More and more professions are now under the threat of automation and artificial intelligence. IT is not a safe haven either, but it is much more likely to have in 10 years a job as a coder, than as a driver or as a shop assistant.
I totally agree. Even creative jobs are "in danger" but I think appreciation for creative work is often tied to a personal identification with the person behind it. I don't know if "artificial art" will be wide spread but we know now that computers and robots and AI can potentially do every single job for us and it's just up to us to decide which work will be "better" in whatever way when a human does it.
bots don't get distracted. I am now going to be a good human and finish my Henry David Thoreau essay and get a chunk off my analysis of the movie "Six degrees of separation" which includes an analysis of the culture industry. Oh the fun ...................................
According to Theodor W Adorno and Max Horkheimer, the administered modern world is sustained in part by technologically reproduced mass art. They contend that the culture industry serves the totalitarian impulses of modern capitalist society, not least because the interests of leading broadcasting firms, publishing companies, and motion picture studios are economically interwoven with those of other capitalist industries. In its attempt to produce and reproduce the social relations of a homogenized society, the culture industry contributes to the hypnotization of the individual consciousness and the maintenance of the status quo. It transforms art into commodities and people into complacent consumers, depicting a “realistic” world that is really no more than a combination of stereotypes, advertising and propaganda. The culture industry also helps create a state of mind in which people’s desires for pleasure and happiness are activated but deferred in endless entertainment. It incalcates resignation, habituating consumers to the everyday drudgery of pensatory entertainment for the life of regimentation but instead represses the desire for happiness, depicting the modern world in a degraded tragedy of “realistic” characters who accept the inexorable order of things. In this way the culture industry manages the psyche of its consumers.