Series VII · Card 17 of 21 · THE RABBIT HOLE
Mistrust authority – promote decentralization.
STEVEN LEVY · HACKERS · 1984
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Source
“Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution” (1984), ch. 2 “The Hacker Ethic”
About the author
American technology journalist (b. 1951). His book “Hackers” (1984) was the first to tell the story of hacker culture and set out its ethic; “Crypto”, about the cypherpunks, followed in 2001.
The question on the back
How much would you rather handle yourself than have it run centrally?