Comment Re:This will never happen (Score 1) 286
It also will never happen because the world in general (especially the Media) loves the underground noir sterotype of the "hacker" too much to give it up for the bland facts of reality.
That mainstream image of "hacker culture," with its cast of zany characters, the ultra-hip warehouse settings, pireced people with blue hair wearing leather...it's a wonder it hasn't become its own MTV show by now. The public isn't going to give up on that commercialized view in favor of reality's community-minded citizens with jobs & families & such wearing free company tshirts sitting at the same desk for 20+ hours.
Let's hear it for perpetuating a more true-to-life sterotype of hackers...
On the other hand, maybe not all public sterotypes are bad. Do you in some way like the other media vision; the more romanticized view? You know, the Neal Stephenson underdog-hero vanquishing Big Bad Business/Government with his hacking skills & saving the world from its own immorality. Still unrealistic, but a much more positive spin on hackerdom...how do you react to that?
That mainstream image of "hacker culture," with its cast of zany characters, the ultra-hip warehouse settings, pireced people with blue hair wearing leather...it's a wonder it hasn't become its own MTV show by now. The public isn't going to give up on that commercialized view in favor of reality's community-minded citizens with jobs & families & such wearing free company tshirts sitting at the same desk for 20+ hours.
Let's hear it for perpetuating a more true-to-life sterotype of hackers...
On the other hand, maybe not all public sterotypes are bad. Do you in some way like the other media vision; the more romanticized view? You know, the Neal Stephenson underdog-hero vanquishing Big Bad Business/Government with his hacking skills & saving the world from its own immorality. Still unrealistic, but a much more positive spin on hackerdom...how do you react to that?
