Hacker Conference 1984 Concepts

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

by Fred Turner · 31 Aug 2006 · 339pp · 57,031 words

Lee Felsenstein and John Draper, who were in fact accomplished hackers. Many of these participants had migrated to the WELL after attending the Hackers’ Conference at Fort Cronkhite in 1984. Tough also selected many participants who could not have been described as hackers but who had been longtime, high-visibility participants on the

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be seen clearly in the edited version of the forum eventually printed in Harper’s. Like the online forum, and like its predecessor, the Hackers’ Conference of 1984, the conversation opened with a discussion of the hacker ethic. WELL regulars described the ethic in cybernetic and countercultural terms familiar to their online colleagues

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around a particular question. In the Harper’s textual forum, as in its online version, and as in the face-to-face forum of the 1984 Hackers’ Conference, the communitarian ethos of the Whole Earth network was not only deployed as a symbolic resource in discussions of the hacker ethic; it was embedded

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-landers had been fused to the craft ethic of computer programmers. Much as Stewart Brand and his Whole Earth colleagues had done at the Hacker’s Conference of 1984, Quittner and Dyson joined the cultural legitimacy of the counterculture to the technological and economic legitimacy of the computer industry. Married to a libertarian

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child

by Morgan G. Ames · 19 Nov 2019 · 426pp · 117,775 words

, Coding Freedom). Tying this hacker ethos to the material world, cultural historian Fred Turner shows how the hacker identity was actively constructed at the first Hackers Conference in 1984 in relation to Levy’s “hacker ethic,” the 1960s counterculture, and certain forms of work (Turner, “Digital Technology”). Bringing in the social and legal

Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

by Yasha Levine · 6 Feb 2018 · 474pp · 130,575 words

interesting and effective body of intellectuals since the framers of the U.S. Constitution,” he wrote in an introduction to a photo spread of the 1984 Hackers’ Conference. “No other group that I know of has set out to liberate a technology and succeeded.… High tech is now something that mass consumers do

The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen · 22 Apr 2013 · 525pp · 116,295 words

user sees another). 2 This dictum is commonly attributed to Stewart Brand, the founder and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, recorded at the first Hackers’ Conference, in 1984. 3 While in the technical community the term “hacker” means a person who develops something quickly and with an air of spontaneity, we use

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words

the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.” —First Hacker’s Conference, November 1984 “ ‘It’s a small world after all,’ sang Disneyland. We didn’t know it was a threat. Now the world is becoming Disney World

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

by Max Fisher · 5 Sep 2022 · 439pp · 131,081 words

, and hippie cred, to repeat it back to them as a mandate: only you can finish what the ’60s started. “I think that hackers,” Brand told a 1984 industry conference, “are the most interesting and effective body of intellectuals since the framers of the U.S. Constitution.” When a teleconferencing company pitched Brand

Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

by E. Gabriella Coleman · 25 Nov 2012 · 398pp · 107,788 words

spaces, such as Noisebridge in San Francisco, have been established in cities across Europe and North America. 21. Some of the first hacker cons were the Hackers Conference held in California (1984), the Computer Chaos Club Congress held in Germany (1984), and Summercon held in Saint Louis (1987). 22. While no hacker con can

What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing

by Ed Finn · 10 Mar 2017 · 285pp · 86,853 words

of the trickster archetype that technology journalist Steven Levy chronicles in Hackers; a character who came to life around Silicon Valley pioneer Stewart Brand’s Hackers Conference in 1984.2 The computational systems of the novel, from the various security systems to the Metaverse itself, were created by hackers and are subject to

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking · 15 Mar 2018

MICHAEL WEISS, “The Menace of Unreality” “INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE,” declared web pioneer and counterculture icon Stewart Brand at the world’s first Hackers Conference in 1984. This freedom wouldn’t just sound the death knell of censorship; it would also mark the end of authoritarian regimes that relied on it. After

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

by Jeremy Rifkin · 31 Mar 2014 · 565pp · 151,129 words

phenomenon.) What’s often lost in Brand’s remarks on the software revolution is the rest of the utterance, which he delivered at the first hackers conference in 1984: On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your