A neat definition:

“Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.”

Stallman  https://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html

book by Mike Cooley   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Cooley_(engineer)

Maturana and Varela wrote in their Santiago Theory of Cognition: “Living systems are cognitive systems, and living as a process is a process of cognition. This statement is valid for all organisms, with or without a nervous system

From Confucius by Meher McArthur

Shine  in a world that follows the way; hide when the world looses the way. In a country where the Way prevails; it is shameful to remain poor and obscure; in a country which has lost the way, it is shameful to become rich and honoured.

“Bootstrapping Complexity” by Kevin Kelly, Andreas Lloyd –

“”I am a very big believer,” Hofstadter told me, “that the core processes of cognition are very, very tightly related to perception.””

“This book offers profound insight into what happens (soon!) when intelligence flows as easily into objects as electricity.” — Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail

Chris Anderson on Kevin Kellys book  http://kk.org/books/the-inevitable/

When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket. — Nikola Tesla, When Woman is Boss, Colliers, January 30, 1926

As seeon on KK blog http://kk.org/thetechnium/sourced-quotes-21/

Buckminster Fuller, 1969, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth: “It is easy to demonstrate to those who will take the time and the trouble to unbias their thoughts that automation swiftly can multiply the physical energy part of wealth much more rapidly and profusely than can man’s muscle and brain-reflexed-manually-controlled production. On the other hand humans alone can foresee, integrate, and anticipate the new tasks to be done by the progressively automated wealth-producing machinery. To take advantage of the fabulous magnitudes of real wealth waiting to be employed intelligently by humans and unblock automation’s postponement by organized labor we must give each human who is or becomes unemployed a life fellowship in research and development or in just simple thinking. Man must be able to dare to think truthfully and to act accordingly without fear of losing his franchise to live. The use of mind fellowships will permit humans comprehensively to expand and accelerate scientific exploration and experimental prototype development. For every 100,OOO employed in research and development, or just plain thinking, one probably will make a breakthrough that will more than pay for the other 99,999 fellowships. Thus, production will no longer be impeded by humans trying to do what machines can do better. Contrariwise, omni-automated and inanimately powered production will unleash humanity’s unique capability-its metaphysical capability. Historically speaking, these steps will be taken within the next decade. There is no doubt about it. But not without much social crisis and consequent educational experience and discovery concerning the nature of our unlimited wealth.”

Brilliant Quora answer about coding.

By Avi Flombaum.

https://www.quora.com/Will-coding-still-be-relevant-in-2025-1

Absolutely! I can only imagine programming becoming more and more important. There’s a great quote by Edsgar Dijkstra, a super famous programmer, about the nature of programming problems:

“The major cause [of the software crisis] is that the machines have become several orders of magnitude more powerful! To put it quite bluntly: as long as there were no machines, programming was no problem at all; when we had a few weak computers, programming became a mild problem, and now we have gigantic computers, programming has become an equally gigantic problem. In this sense the electronic industry has not solved a single problem, it has only created them, it has created the problem of using its products.”

When I read that quote I think about how much we as a civilization rely upon code. So much of our world is powered by programming. In this sense, we’ve created the problem of maintaining this software, which means we’ll always need more programmers. But also, as computing becomes more and more powerful, the software we write will be more and more powerful, creating a virtuous cycle of need. As long as we need software, which will never go away, we’ll need programmers. So I think code will not only still be relevant in 2025, it’ll be even more important. I think all estimates on the number of programmers needed in the next 10 years are low. Software is eating the world and every company that survives will be a technology company. We’re also seeing a diversification of the type of programmers, from Data Science to Virtual Reality, there are entirely new fields of code still being born today, why would that stop?

Additionally, I think code is a medium, it’s more than just a job, it’s new way we as a species communicate. We model the problems and phenomena of the world in code. In this sense, code is more about expression. And we’ll never stop expressing ourselves in this manner. So I think we’ll see a proliferation of the ways in which we use code – from outside the software vocation and into almost every field of study. I imagine in 25 years we’ll be teaching Math, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Geometry, most STEM topics, through code. You won’t learn to program so you can build applications, but rather you’ll learn to program so you can express ideas outside the realm of software. Code is the lingua-franca of the information age and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.