What's confusing to me?
Although I understand the messages the author is trying to convey, there are a couple of phrases & words that confused me upon reading the passage at first glance. For example when the author said, “ We do not own what we produce - it owns us. This was confusing to me because I was trying to determine what we, “the people” produce & how does it own us.
Another thing that stood out to me was where the author says, “ Education is slavery”, because education is supposed to be knowledge & knowledge is power. So if Knowledge is slavery, how will we truly be powerful?
What I like about it?
One of the main reasons why I enjoyed reading this passage is because it involves the arts. Although the main topic of discussion is hacking & computers, it still can relate to the arts because I see, “hacking as an art”. I see hacking as an art because not everyone has the talent to do it successfully or do it well at first. It takes time & talent in order to perfect it like every piece of art.
Another topic that I found interesting was when the author brought up the topic of concept "information" where he refers to the freedom of information. With this he describes how people lack imagination & creativity because society pushes us to base life off of hard core facts & information. While instead he encourages the readers to think “outside of the box” and be different.
The fact the access of pre-existing information is so easy “hinders” our creativity & opportunities to use different methods.
For example in today's society we can find the answers to our questions by simply saying, “Hey Google”, and then finding a solution” within seconds. Which may be the fastest way to solve our issues, but it makes us become lazy and single minded on how we find the solutions to our problems instead of trying other methods.
| Reading 1 |
Reading 2 |
| Haiku |
| Wiki Hack |
| Division Raster |
| CSS Landscape |
| Mr. Potatoe Head |
| Art 3057 |