Now That Tech Runs the World, Let's Retire the Hacker Ideal
Now That Tech Runs the World, Let's Retire the Hacker Ideal
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 1, 20186m 58s
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Show Notes
Virgil Griffith discovered the allure of hacking in 1993, while slumped at an Intel 80386 system in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He was 10, and he was on a losing streak at Star Wars: X-Wing. To hit the leaderboard, he’d need a fleet of ace wingmen, but he only had one X-Wing fighter that could hold its own in the game’s World War I–style dogfights. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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