Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. Except Woody Allen didn't say it. Except Harry Block didn't say it either. He said it through the mouth of a character he created in the movie. Hacking is a kind of deconstruction of the combinations and permutations available in a network.
Deconstruction is essential in a digital world.
The skills of critical thinking, the ability to integrate fragments and know how to build a Big Picture are more important than ever. Those skills are critical to hacking and securing networks and critical to understanding who is really who in a world in which people are not always what they seem. Plato feared the emerging world of writing because anybody could say anything without accountability, but he did not foresee the emergence of tools to document and evaluate what was written. Islands in the Clickstream is a weekly column written by Richard Thieme exploring social and cultural dimensions of computer technology. Comments are welcome.