To become a Hacker you need to solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. To be a real hacker, however, you need to get to the point where you can learn a new language in days by relating what's in the manual to what you already know. Most of the things
. the hacker culture has built do their work out of sight, helping run factories and offices and universities without any obvious impact on how non-hackers live. The Web is the one big exception; the huge shiny hacker toy that even politicians admit has changed the world.