Why Hackers Will Save the World

[ Thanks to Glyn
Moody for this link. ]

Ogg video of Mr. Moody’s
excellent talk is here.

“The achievements of free software are already extraordinary. As
well as running most of the Internet’s infrastructure, and powering
many of its leading companies, free software is beginning to find
wide use in the server rooms of enterprises and on the desktops of
general users. It is also increasingly deployed in embedded
systems, and for mobile phones. But that’s just the start: inspired
by the ideas of free software, and building on its innovations, a
wide range of other movements have been founded that aim to
introduce freedom, openness and transparency to some of the most
important areas of human activity. This talk explores their
impact.

“Glyn Moody is a writer, journalist, and blogger. After
receiving two degrees in maths, he became a journalist, and started
writing about computers in 1982, the Internet in 1994, and free
software in 1995. In August 1997, his feature “The Greatest OS that
(N)ever Was” appeared in Wired magazine; his history of free
software and open source, “Rebel Code”, was published by Penguin in
2001. He now blogs at opendotdotdot.blogspot.com, and is @glynmoody
on Twitter and identi.ca.”

Complete
Story