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Republic . Glass was fired last week by TNR after a Forbes reporter alerted TNR editor Charles Lane that an article about a teen-age computer hacker ("Hack Heaven," May 18) was full of fabrications, and Lane's own investigation confirmed that Glass had made things up wholesale in many New Republic pieces.
It's a testimony to his energy that when editors questioned his hacker piece, he erected a Web site to prove the existence of a nonexistent software company.
I do not have to be a hacker or a tekkie in order to manage efficiently my user-friendly computer, In one version of reality, those ubiquitous computers are going to take over all aspects of life, doing away with my job or changing it into something a robot should do, rather than a human being.
Readers who want a more complete picture should read two other books: Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984), which gives a still-fresh account of MIT's Project MAC (not coincidentally funded by Licklider), an enterprise dominated by the "hacker ethic"--the compulsive urge to explore and improve on things.
The hacker community's reaction to the press: vigorous denial of wrongdoing.