THE HACKER ETHIC 

AUTHOR: Pekka Himanen

PROLOGUE: Linus Torvalds

EPILOGUE: Manuel Castells

EDITION 2001 First Edition stated

PUBLISHER: Random House, New York

LANGUAGE: English

DESCRIPTION: Black publishers cloth covered boards with gilt decoration on the cover and on the spine. Clear myelor decorated dust jacket is present. Covers and jacket are bright and clean without distraction. 232 clean and bright pages without marking stain or soil

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

PEKKA HIMANEN earned his PhD at the Univ of Helsinki at the age of 20. His mapping of the technological development has brought hin into dialogue with academics, artist’s government ministers and CEOs. Himanen works at the Univ of Helsinki and the Univ of California at Berkeley

LINUS TORVALDS has become one of the most respected hackers within the computer community for creating the Linux operating system while as a student at that the Univ of Helsinki in 1991. Linux has grown into a project involving thousands of programmers and millions of users worldwide.

MANUEL CASTELLS is a professor of Sociology University of Helsinki and the author of over 20 books. 

 ABSTRACT: More than 100 years ago Max Weber's book The Protestant Ethic & spirit of Capitalism explained the spirit of the industrial age, the Protestant ethic. This book explains how hackers represent an opposing ethos for the information age. Hackers' technical creations & the hackers values challenge us i.e., the internet a symbol of our time. These values promote passionate, rhythmic work; the belief that individuals can create great things by joining forces in imaginative ways, maintaining existing ethical ideals "privacy and equity" in our technologized society.

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