Like many around the web, I was struck last month by the obituary of Bell Labs engineer John E. Karlin, whose greatest legacy may be the keypad design on traditional touch-tone phones. (That is, the arrangement in a 3×3 grid with the 1-2-3 across the top instead of the bottom.) I had long heard the […]
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Not *that* kind of hacker
Two articles that crossed my desk today described the difference between the two kinds of hackers. Howard Rheingold offered this distinction in his memoir of the WELL: (when “hacking” meant creative programming rather than online breaking and entering) The New York Times chose to explain it in a story about “hacker hostels” 1Incidentally, fellow Iron […]
Conversation’s just fine, thanks: a response to Sherry Turkle
Every once in a while, my Iron Blogger group decides to take on a common topic. At our meet-up this week, a handful of us agreed to take on last week’s Sherry Turkle op-ed in the New York Times. It’s called "The Flight from Conversation," and it seems to cover some of the same territory […]