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Lush Future #6 - “Hacker Culture Goes Mainstream” Interview with Tom Secker, from SpyCulture & Humanarchy http://spyculture.com http://humanarchy.net Mike was fortunate enough to be able to sit down and discuss with Tom Secker “hacker culture going mainstream” for just over an hour. Unfortunately, the final 10 minutes of the conversation has been lost due to my being a newbie at this recording thing. We look forward to continuing this discussion with Tom in the very near future. — Show Notes: “Hacker culture” intitially began as a community whose only participants were largely considered (even by their peers) to be social-outcast-basement-dwelling-computer-guys (often self-identifying as such). As a result of both corporate and governmental forces, ‘hacker culture’ has since been co-opted and integrated into mainstream culture for profit, consolidation of power, and restriction of competing models. What is 'hacking’? Originally, 'hacking’ was a term used by the TMRC, or Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT to describe suping up model trains by modifying various parts of the system. @
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