The Seventh Day: the values of hacker ethic in the new century

The Seventh Day: the values of hacker ethic in the new century

Until now, the "hacker" was considered an Internet thug, responsible for hacking and stealing bank card numbers. The rise of the Net has contributed to this bad reputation, which is certainly truncated and misleading, of the buccaneers of the big web. Philosopher Pekka Himanen sees hackers as model citizens of the information age. He sees them as the real drivers of a profound social transformation. Their ethics, their relationship to work, time or money, are based on passion, pleasure or sharing. This ethic is radically opposed to the Protestant ethic, as defined by Max Weber, of work as a duty, as a value in itself, a morality that still dominates the world today.

Passion is always necessary to move forward and can always be harnessed if the context allows. Creative exploration avoids being locked into a vision. While the work ethic shows us that the form comes after the essence of a project. 

Their network ethic allows them to fight against all types of censorship and to unravel the strings.