diff --git a/content/manifestos-tmp/Hacker-Questions.txt b/content/manifestos-tmp/Hacker-Questions.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6aad678 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/manifestos-tmp/Hacker-Questions.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +A manifesto + + +http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/ + + +# Hacker Questions + +* ~~Access to computers should be unlimited and total.~~ Who gets to use what I make? Who am I leaving out? How does what I make facilitate or hinder access? + +* ~~All information should be free.~~ What data am I using? Whose labor produced it and what biases and assumptions are built into it? Why choose this particular phenomenon for digitization/transcription? What do the data leave out? + +* ~~Mistrust authority - promote decentralization.~~ What systems of authority am I enacting through what I make? What systems do I rely on? How does what I make support other people? + +* ~~Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race or position.~~ What kind of community am I assuming? What community do I invite through what I make? How are my own personal values reflected in what I make? + + + +*** +