An interesting article + my thoughts on it.
http://www.zone-h.org/en/news/read/id=3768/
I like this article. As someone who has been called a hacker I can associate with what is being said. It sums up a lot of what I believe about technology, language, progress and how we should treat out children. I think that at points it suffers from intellectual naivety however, in that it believes that people all believe in each other and that greed is not a factor, presumably falling into the hacker edcit that knowledge is the only true goal. This is something I so want to believe, but the world around me proves that whilst there is one person with more than the other desire, and thus greed, will be born.
The information age has levelled so many barriers; Information is available to a much wider range of people much more easily. Admitedly the qualtiy of that information is, as a whole, quite low, it is getting better however. Hopefully it will continue to get better and the measurement for quality of informaiton will improve alongside it. But I believe there will still be people who will be happy to be led like sheep, like Huxley has predicted in so many ways, adn that there will always be a power.
And whilst that exists, there will always be someone clambering for a piece of that power.
Only of educating our children to be better than the world around us can we help this. But still, it only takes one person to think differently for it to all quickly revert back to what it was. Are humans able to exist in equality, in harmony?
And speaking of which, the article also gets many points as a last statement on an argument, it very succesfully invokes Godwin's Law
