6 Feb
2013
6 Feb
'13
2:39 p.m.
I was reading ?The Fire in the Valley? ? the story of how the computer
became a mass-consumer product - and the wrestling of control by
experimenters & hobbyists of computing technology from elites - the
computer cognoscenti. This beginning age(1970s-80s) saw the rise of
the technocrat, the nerd, the geek who revolutionized technology but
who today are the computing elite and control our technocratic society
for good or ill. Vintage computers, the beginning era, has been
subsumed by a technology so rapidly advancing it threatens to
overwhelm us yet I still look back with fondness and I hope we can
revive some of that era?s experimentation if only to validate a true
hacker ethic.
Murray--