CS351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Procedural Programming, Jean Baudrillard, Automatic Programming
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On software, or the persistence of visual knowledge. Jean baudrillard, in the ecstasy of communication argues that we no longer partake in the drama of alienation, but are the ecstasy of communication. And this ecstasy is obscene because in the raw and inexorable light of information everything is immediately transparent, visible or exposed . Although extreme, baudrillards con ation of information (and thus computation) with transparency resonates widely in popular and scholarly circles, from fears over propaganda behind national databases to examinations of surveillance society . The computer, that most non visual and nontransparent device- has paradoxically fostered. You don"t realize how non-transparent your computer actually is until it dies. Automatic programming, what we call programming today, arose from a desire to reuse code and to recruit the computer into its own operation- that is, to transform singular instructions into a language a computer could write.
