McKenzie Wark: A Hacker Manifesto

"Information is indeed the very potential for there to be objects and subjects. It is the medium in which objects and subjects actually come into existence, and is the medium in which their virtuality resides. When information is not free, then the class that owns or controls it turns its capacity toward its own interest and away from its own inherent virtuality." I agree with many aspects of this quote and of the article "A Hacker Manifesto". But I feel that this information that is so readily attainable comes with a heavy price. We have sacrificed experience for knowledge in the sense that anything that peaks our interest is in almost all cases readily attainable. With all of the vast information that we share on the internet alone, we can satisfy anyones visual or hearing curiosities everywhere. You can get video and audio of just about anything happening, whether it is animated or real.
But when knowledge is so entirely ready for you, I believe the mind becomes lazy. When we have all of this knowlege and information at the tip of our fingers, we often will find ourselves constantly not satisfied with what we have. People will go on you tube trips where they will spend hours just sitting and watching random videos on youtube, simply to kill boredom.
-Conor