> Because pop-technology is void of any sort of spirit, culture or enthusiasm. It's all buzzwords, sale pitches and wheel reinventing put in a new wrapper and walled gardens.
This is sad but true, though.
Those buzzwords are marketing techniques, and those riding the trains of trends and buzzwords are the one getting the spotlight because human naturally follow blings and other human attentions are indeed power.
It's sad that people who work with careful, thoughtful, artful, and fortified with engineering and scientific craftsmanship rarely have the means to prove themselves.
Btw, what is libre software hacker movement, though?
Hacking (as per original MIT definition) means doing something clever or novel because of the love of the medium not to satisfy some sort of demand or business opportunity.
It's in the spirit of "look at this cool thing you can do".
I'm sure you're familiar with free(libre) software already and "libre hacking" is just that - some relatively useless fun programs or tools that people share under libre license.
My favorite example that I use every day would be doge[1] project that just prints a doge meme based on your terminal history whenever you startup your terminal. It has no real purpose other than make you smile an appreciate technology from the novelty point of view.
This is sad but true, though.
Those buzzwords are marketing techniques, and those riding the trains of trends and buzzwords are the one getting the spotlight because human naturally follow blings and other human attentions are indeed power.
It's sad that people who work with careful, thoughtful, artful, and fortified with engineering and scientific craftsmanship rarely have the means to prove themselves.
Btw, what is libre software hacker movement, though?