Become a Hiro
UB5.230 | Day 1 | 18:05 - 18:30 | Speakers: Addie Girouard
Abstract
Over 30 years ago, Neal Stephenson wrote about a pizza-delivering hacker who saved the digital world. Today, we're all facing our own L. Bob Rife – not through ancient Sumerian viruses, but through corporate consolidation and regulatory pressure threatening to end open source as we know it.
Our digital commons began as a frontier of freedom and innovation. Today giants are consolidating control over the infrastructure that shapes our digital world. The dark future seen in the franchise-owned streets of Snow Crash's America is coming. But Hiro showed us how to fight back: with skill, with allies, and with unwavering dedication to freedom.
We're facing our own daemon – not ancient Sumerian, but modern corporate and regulatory control. The question is: Will you remain a pizza delivery driver, or will you become a Hiro?
The future of open source depends on your answer.
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