Tracy Chou, leading Silicon Valley engineer, explains why every tech worker needs a humanities education — Quartz
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What Jamie wrote
This is a start, but I think we need to go further. Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace by Larry Lessing makes this point in a big way. If technologists are creating the worlds in which we interact, the structure of those worlds is important in more ways than we know. Ethics is completely missing in this discussion inside our industry.
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