Clive Thompson talk, "The Cult of Efficiency”
Clive Thompson, a columnist for Wired magazine and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, will give a talk titled, "The Cult of Efficiency.”Drawing from his new book Coders: The Making of a Tribe and the Remaking of the World, Thompson will discuss the psychological reasons why programmers love efficiency, explain why this disposition motivates them to create code for automating slow and repetitive tasks, and identify civic problems that have resulted from this approach to design. By the end of the talk, Thompson will make the case that, strange as it may seem, society sometimes will be better off if code is created to slow things down.
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Open to the Public
| Cost | FREE |
| Students | FREE |
| Faculty/Staff | FREE |
| Alumni | FREE |
| Other | FREE |