Paul Ford, an american software developer and weblog writer and Dru Jay, also a weblog writer, had an interesting conversation about how to think about culture of computing, culture of technology and culture of software. One interesting point is that they say, software has not a origin, there is only something like "progress". Second good point, from Dru Jay, is that it's a question of terms to put software or computing into a social context, tied up to a time before software and computing. For example, instead of talking about software geneaology it could make more sense talking about genealogy of "productivity", "information", or "communication" to include developments of the pre-computer age.

Well, all in all this is not really important. It's just nice to see, that also other people are taking a cultural view on this technology.

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