Brian Eno, in an email to Stewart Brand (from A Year):
I surprisingly harsh stereotype for Eno, but valid point. Curious how this perception -- or, at least, the wording -- would be different today, versus 1995, when this was written.
"...I myself crash repeatedly into the brick walls of computer culture, and realize more and more the hype is somewhat premature....This is a philosophical question: when people program -- i.e., decide on which set of possible options they should make available -- they express a philosophy about what operations are important in the world. If the philosophy they express is on anything like the level of breathtaking stupidity that the games they play and the Internet conversations they have are, then we are completely sunk. We are victims of their limitations. It's as though we're using a language that has lots of words like 'cool' and 'surf' but not one for 'organism' or 'evolve' or 'synergy.' I really am heartily sick of the juvenility of it all."
I surprisingly harsh stereotype for Eno, but valid point. Curious how this perception -- or, at least, the wording -- would be different today, versus 1995, when this was written.