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True Hackers
true-hacker n. [analogy with `trufan' from SF fandom] One
who exemplifies the primary values of hacker culture, esp.
competence and helpfulness to other hackers. A high compliment.
"He spent 6 hours helping me bring up UUCP and netnews on my
FOOBAR 4000 last week -- manifestly the act of a true-hacker."
-- The on-line hacker Jargon File, version 4.0.0
"Steven Levy's classic book explains why the misuse of the word 'hackers' to describe computer criminals does a terrible disservice to many important shapers of the digital revolution."
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Geoscope
"All the world would be dynamically viewable and picturable
and radioable to all the world, so that common consideration in a most
educated manner of all world problems by all world people would become a
practical everyday, -hour and -minute event."
-- R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, 1981,
The Geoscope chapter from
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