Pekka Himanen earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the
University of Helsinki at the age of twenty. His ongoing mapping of
the meaning of technological development has brought him into
dialouge with academics, artists, ministers, and CEOs. Himanen
works at the University of Helsinki and at the University of
California at Berkeley.
Linus Torvalds has become one of the most respected hackers
within the computer community for creating the Linux operating
system in 1991 while a student at the University of Helsinki. Since
then, Linux has grown into a project involving thousands of
programmers and millions of users worldwide.
Manuel Castells is a professor of sociology at the
University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of the
highly acclaimed trilogy The Information Age and of The City of the
Grassroots (winnter of the 1983 C. Wright Mills Award) and of more
than twenty other books.
“A person can be a hacker without having anything to do with
computers.”
—Pekka Himanen
“A thoroughly spirited and commendable framework for human
creativity.”
—Financial Times
“As comprehensive and instructive as any [survey] to date...
Himanen has a powerful grasp on that strangely intoxicating
contradiction that is open-source.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Engagingly written and provocative, and indubitably commendable in
its vision of a transformation of how all of us relate to our
working life....We should all be more like hackers.”
—Salon.com
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