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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.
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.
Most important, circa 1970s, would be Alvin Toffler ( The Third Wave ) and Stewart Brand (who wrote a crucial article for Rolling Stone in 1970 about how the real legacy of the hippie cultural revolution was the computer hacker).
An aside halfway through the piece likens FBI agents, scanning the Internet for hacker assaults and political extremists, to "ancients searching the skies for a sign."
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.