Sublime

The Hacker sees through the veil of man-made worlds and glimpses a Reality Operating System (RealityOS) pulsating with possibilities to tinker with. The Hacker believes that every object, every social structure, every system contains a core innovation that has been dialled down, dressed up and packaged for an all-too-human agenda.

solo play figures as central in narratives of gamers gone wild.

enabled each individual person to live twenty-four/seven in their own personalized hallucination stream.

If you take all of our technological innovations of the past two decades—certainly those in the fields of computing and communications—you cannot fail to see that their collective tendency is to breach the wall of isolated selfhood and to swamp us

On another level, the story of the New Internet is a story of individuals and their psychologies. Over the last decade, technology workers have opened themselves up to a tremendous amount of value drift (the process in which previously steadfast values are compromised over time).

Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet.

to the Dark Forest of the internet; off mainline socials where their speech and behavior was broadcast to anyone and into small niche communities on invite-only forums, p2p networks, and group chats.

In a speech at the August 2013 Turing Festival in Edinburgh, Hearn envisioned an economy composed of autonomous economic agents.