[Noisebridge-discuss] Hacker Dojo up and running, and in the mainstream news -- grand opening next week

[Naomi Most]

>
> > This is especially funny because their lawyer specifically
> > called me for advice about setting up a hacklab!
> >
> > Oh well! People have forgotten about the rich history New Hack
> > City, the L0pht and of course all of Crowley's old haunts...
>
>   This sort of false novelty is endemic in computing. It would
>  be nice if people were called out on not giving credit where
>  credit is due; attribution should be a stronger habit in
>  computing.
>
>

"False novelty" (as you've just named and defined it) is endemic to culture
itself, and there are indisputably Too Many Things in the world to keep
track of, especially when derivative ideas (such as The Matrix) can often be
more popular and far-reaching in mass consciousness than the ideas from
which they sprang.

It's hard for me to attribute any real malice or ignorance of a shameful
variety to the failure to give shout-outs to one's idea's intellectual
precedents.

It's like asking everyone in the world to know the lineage of every one of
the ideas they choose to take to market, and that's not how ideas or human
brains work.

--Naomi
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