The point being, they knew they were changing the world, and they were doing an end run around politics, as they thought. Politics did nothing but put obstacles in their way. The hacker ethos was to work around it. Instead, the new focus is on the media manipulators who specialize in operating in the new economy. We'll all be on the telly, but most of us get our 15 minutes of fame on closed-circuit television.
Progress is real if discontinuous.
The upward curve resolves itself into a series of troughs and crests. Andrew Leonard is a senior correspondent for Salon Technology. Ken MacLeod, science fiction's freshest new writer achieves the highly improbable with wit and style. All rights reserved.