Deconstruction of Computing
Results of the Exercise
Here are some of the pairs we came up with:
- Decentralized/centralized
- Invention/discovery
- Simplicity/complexity
- Silence/noise
- Code/people
- Real/mystic
- Physical/non-physical
- Structured/unstructured
- Top-down/bottom-up
- To know/to feel
- Inside/outside
- Rigid/flexible
- Fact/feeling
- Unambiguous/ambiguous
- Male/female
- Natural/unnatural
- Science/art
- Flexible/inflexible
- Practice/theory
- Deep/shallow
- Thick/thin
- Objective/subjective
- New/old
- Big/small
- Fast/slow
- Profit/nonprofit
- Wellness/sickness
- Introvert/extrovert
- Completeness/sufficiency
- Head/heart
- Human/inhuman
- Natural/artificial
- Proof/guess
- Order/chaos
- Active/passive
- Sun/moon
- Yin/yang
- Action/reaction
- Rational/irrational
- Cartesian/zen
- Privacy/transparency
- Readable/unreadable
- Original/imitated
- State/behavior
- Structured/unstructured
- Unique/replicated
- Making/stealing
- Stable/unstable
- Best/optimal
- Good/bad
- Created/discovered
- Good/perfect
- Organic/inorganic
- Worse/better
- Open/closed
- Fair/unfair
- Theism/atheism
- Expensive/cheap
- Broad/narrow
- Leader/follower
- Up/down
- Love/hate
- Master/servant
- User/developer
- Us/them
- In charge/not in charge
- Fear/security
- Common/uncommon
- Solution/problem
- Power/weakness
- Code/people
- Add/(subtract or modify)
Of these we selected these as especially worth discussing:
- Code/people
- Proof/guess
- Solution/problem
- Cartesian/zen
- Love/hate
- Male/female
- Expensive/cheap
- Objective/subjective
- Transparency/privacy
- Wrong/right
- Created/discovered
- Inorganic/organic
- Theory/practice
- Scientific/empirical
- Silence/noise
- Simplicity/complexity
- Fact/feeling
- Sickness/wellness
- Completeness/sufficiency
