The purpose of computers is human freedom. Like "maturity" and "reality" and "progress", the word "technology" has an agenda for your behavior: usually what is being referred to as "technology" is something that somebody wants you to submit to. "Technology" often implicitly refers to something you are expected to turn over to "the guys who understand it." What we really need is software designs that go into realms that cannot be visualized on paper, to break ideas and presentations out of their four-walled prison. Cyber means "I do not know what I am talking about" or "I am trying to fool and confuse you." And please, Mr. Programmer, leave the choices to ME, not labyrinths of software outside my control, because I DO NOT TRUST YOU. The Web is a foam of ever-popping bubbles, ever-changing shop windows. The Web is the minimal concession to hypertext that a sequence-and-hierarchy chauvinist could possibly make. If you haven't read Ted Nelson you're not really a hacker. |