Morning Glory

Growing up around technology, I’ve always had some sort of excitement and interest in hacking, hackers, and the limitless potential one can do with a computer; so naturally, I was really interested in this text. After reading this text, I feel like I have seen another side of ‘hackers.’ Through hacking, new possibilities are made, good or bad. he talks about hacking not just as a illegal technological exploit, but as creating something unique, new, original, however not yours. I like how Wark states that hackers are not just limited to smart tech-savvy people that know their way around virtual data banks, but as innovators and at the same time a new class.

I’m not that very good at wrapping my head around the abstract so reading Wark’s excerpt about abstraction was challenging for me to mull over. I think that this part of Wark’s writing was important because it was here that he defines what a hacker does as an individual and as a class.

What I don’t actually like about Wark’s writing is that it becomes too much into the abstract and I would catch myself skimming past things that I might found interesting; but i guess that’s just a personal dislike.

When Wark talks about how Education is slavery, I agree and disagree at the same time. Education is what you make of it after you take it in. It could be viewed as a guideline and slight helper of your future, or it can be the framework of a career that you spend all your life chasing after only to be a cog in a machine called a company.

Above everything that Wark has written, I do agree on his definition of hackers and what they do. They are above the normal ways of education, they create something of their own design, however it may not be approved by society, nor might it even be owned by its creator; however you cannot deny that these ‘hackers’ are bringers of new change and change is always good because it ushers in new experiences brings light to new discoveries.

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