Thursday, February 2, 2012

Dreamers, Hackers and the Securities and Exchange Commission

The Facebook S.E.C. Filing (from S-1 Registration Statement Under the Securities Act of 1933) here

David Choe, the Skeptical Grafitti Artist Who Gambled on Facebook and Stands to Win Big here

The Official Mark Zuckerberg Facebook biography indicates that he considers himself an atheist and a computer hacker here  :

Excerpt here: "In 2010, Stephen Levy, who authored the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, wrote that Zuckerberg "clearly thinks of himself as a hacker."[16] Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to break things" "to make them better."[16][17] Facebook instituted "hackathons" held every six to eight weeks where participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project.[16] The company provided music, food, and beer at the hackathons, and many Facebook staff members, including Zuckerberg, regularly attended.[17] "The idea is that you can build something really good in a night,” Zuckerberg told Levy. "And that’s part of the personality of Facebook now ... It’s definitely very core to my personality."[16]


Again, all mindful of the visionary book by Sol Yurick, Behold Metatron: The Recording Angel, who wrote "...the old philosopher's stone could convert base metals into gold. now humans, real estate, social relations are converted into electronic signs carried in an electronic plasma. the dream of magical controll has never been exorcised. perhaps, after all, modern capitalism is a great factory for the production of angels."


...which this site discussed previously here . Published by Autonomedia (Foreign Agents Press) here

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