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Hacker Ethic : And the Spirit of the Information Age by Pekka Himanen (2001, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100375505660

ISBN-139780375505669

eBay Product ID (ePID)1773849

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameHacker Ethic : and the Spirit of the Information Age

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

SubjectSocial Aspects / General, Programming / Open Source, General

TypeTextbook

AuthorPekka Himanen

Subject AreaComputers, Technology & Engineering

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.7 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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LCCN00-053354

Reviews"Pekka Himanen's theory of the hacker culture as the spirit of informationalism is a fundamental breakthrough in the discovery of the world unfolding in the uncertain dawn of the third millennium." -Manuel Castells, from the Epilogue "The Hacker Ethic is one of the most significant political ideas and value systems in history. Hackers are the warriors, explorers, guerrillas, and joyous adventurers of the Digital Age, and the true architects of the new economy. Demonized and often misunderstood, they are changing the world and the way it works. Pekka Himanen explains how and why in a book that is essential reading for anybody who wants to live, work or do business in the twenty-first century." -Jon Katz, columnist for slashdot.org and author of Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho "At last we have a book about the ethics of true hackers . . .not the criminals and vandals that the press calls hackers today, but the idealistic pioneers whose ethics of openness, enablement and cooperation laid the cornerstone for our new economy." -Danny Hillis, Co-Founder, The Long Now Foundation and Co-Chairman & CTO, Applied Minds, Inc., "Pekka Himanen's theory of the hacker culture as the spirit of informationalism is a fundamental breakthrough in the discovery of the world unfolding in the uncertain dawn of the third millennium." -Manuel Castells, from the Epilogue "The Hacker Ethic is one of the most significant political ideas and value systems in history. Hackers are the warriors, explorers, guerrillas, and joyous adventurers of the Digital Age, and the true architects of the new economy. Demonized and often misunderstood, they are changing the world and the way it works. Pekka Himanen explains how and why in a book that is essential reading for anybody who wants to live, work or do business in the twenty-first century." -Jon Katz, columnist for slashdot.org and author ofGeeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho "At last we have a book about the ethics of true hackers . . .not the criminals and vandals that the press calls hackers today, but the idealistic pioneers whose ethics of openness, enablement and cooperation laid the cornerstone for our new economy." -Danny Hillis, Co-Founder, The Long Now Foundation and Co-Chairman & CTO, Applied Minds, Inc.

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal303.4/833

Prologue byTorvalds, Linus

Epilogue byCastells, Manuel.

SynopsisOn the heels of the Protestant work ethic comes a new, opposing cultural logic, born of the Information Age and rapidly gaining force--the Hacker Ethic as outlined by Pekka Himanen. "Hackers are the warriors, explorers, guerrillas, and joyous adventurers of the Digital Age, and the true architects of the new economy."--John Katz, columnist for slashdot.org.

LC Classification NumberQA76.9.M65H56 2001