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The Hacker Ethic: And the Spirit of the Infornation Age

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Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism articulated the animating spirit of the Industrial Age, known ever since as the Protestant work ethic. Now, Pekka Himanen articulates a new, opposing cultural logic, born of the Information Age and rapidly gaining force. The Internet, e-mail, the first personal computers -- all were created by hackers. As more of our work becomes hacker work, hacker values -- faith in the power of free and open information, rejection of rigid time divisions, and propagation of a new social model organized around the spirit of play and the economy of free exchange -- bleed out into the world and change consciousness in radical ways, as this epochal book so brilliantly explains.

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"Pekka Himanen's theory of the hacker culture as the spirit of informationalism is a fundamental breakthrough in the discovery of the world unfolding in the uncertain dawn of the third millennium." -Manuel Castells, from the Epilogue "The Hacker Ethic is one of the most significant political ideas and value systems in history. Hackers are the warriors, explorers, guerrillas, and joyous adventurers of the Digital Age, and the true architects of the new economy. Demonized and often misunderstood, they are changing the world and the way it works. Pekka Himanen explains how and why in a book that is essential reading for anybody who wants to live, work or do business in the twenty-first century." -Jon Katz, columnist for slashdot.org and author of "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" "At last we have a book about the ethics of true hackers . . .not the criminals and vandals that the press calls hackers today, but the idealistic pioneers whose ethics of openness, enablement and cooperation laid the cornerstone for our new economy." -Danny Hillis, Co-Founder, The Long Now Foundation and Co-Chairman & CTO, Applied Minds, Inc.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780375505669
  • Publisher: Random House (NY)
  • Publisher Imprint: Random House (NY)
  • Height: 199 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 340 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0375505660
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: And the Spirit of the Infornation Age
  • Width: 136 mm


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