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Tech Toolkit Homepage > University Libraries, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) The Anthropology of Hackers - Gabriella Coleman - Technology. Editor's Note: Pasty kids with greasy hair typing on command lines. Dark villains of the networked world. Security magicians with odd political beliefs. We have a lot of ideas about who hackers are, but very few people have actually tried to seriously investigate the anthropology of one of the more fascinating social groups to emerge at the end of the 20th century.
NYU's Gabriella Coleman studies their culture, an odd brew of faith in freedom of information and traditional liberalism, along with a generous salt-and-peppering of nerdiness and counterculturalism. In the latest edition of our syllabus-as-essay series, Coleman guides us past the stereotypes and into the many hideouts and projects of the hacker underground. A "hacker" is a technologist with a love for computing and a "hack" is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. Week One: Introductions and the MIT Hackers Week Two: The Craft and Liberalism of Hacking Week Three: Phreaking Week Thirteen: Nerds A lot. Ten Technologies That Will Rock 2010. Now that the aughts are behind us, we can start the new decade with a bang. So many new technologies are ready to make a big impact this year. Some of them will be brand new, but many have been gestating and are now ready to hatch.
If there is any theme here it is the mobile Web. As I think through the top ten technologies that will rock 2010, more than half of them are mobile. Below is my list of the ten technologies that will leave the biggest marks on 2010: The Tablet: It’s the most anticipated product of the year. IRRT Free Links Technology - IRRT Wiki.