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  1. Apr 2018
    1. social mission — to make the world more open and connected.

      I don't think that Zuckerberg ever realized how bit Facebook could actually get. Sure he had aspirations for the future and wanted it to get popular, but I don't think he ever realized just how big.

    2. Personal relationships are the fundamental unit of our society. Relationships are how we discover new ideas, understand our world and ultimately derive long-term happiness.

      i completely agree with this statement. Everything in life evolves from the relationships that we have with people. For example, in the present day it is difficult to find internships. A majority of the time young adults get internships because of someone they know or their family is friends with. In the modern working world, it is essential to network.

    3. majority of people in the world have access to the internet or mobile phones

      I think this refers to countries who can afford these things. Many places in the world are still very rural. Would we consider this a good thing to all be connected or a bad thing? I think that everyone has different opinions but my opinion is that there is a time and a place for everything.

    1. Let’s start with the idea that technology is always a force for good.

      This is something I have to disagree with. Although maybe right now the purpose behind it is good and beneficial, I feel that in the long run technology will have negative effects on not only the environment but the human race. We have already started to deteriorate and I believe that if technology keeps evolving, it'll pass up what humans are capeable of.

  2. www.wired.com www.wired.com
    1. beating the system—especially a big one, like the IRS or American democracy—must yield an overman swell of supremacy to those who seem to be its slaves.

      I think this is a really strong idea that needs to be investigated further on a complex level.

    1. hackers work obliquely. The hacker is ambiguous, specialising in deviance from established boundaries, including ideological battle lines.

      I think this is the best quality of a hacker - he strays from the lines to either create something of his own or to additionally build on something to create a new idea.

    2. This dynamic is not unique to the internet

      We talked about this concept during the first few classes of the semester. Hacking is about what you make of it and it is not necessarily tied down to one way - infinite ways is more accurate.