This is a horrible entry. Hack it and make it better!

“To produce is to repeat; to hack, to differentiate.”

When we create a piece of art, we repeat a motion to create something. When we reproduce it, we repeat those motions in which we created it. When we hack into something we take something that existed and made it useful in a different way. This can be viewed in terms of art, music, literature, but more importantly technology.

It’s an interesting theory in relation to class because you can have someone take over someone’s property and control it or make it theirs. The world of the virtual is what they own, they can own what’s unreal. Even better they can take something that’s real and make it their, add their stamp or signature to it but making it different.

But it’s a bout competition too, the checks and balances of the Hacking world is created by doing new and innovative hacks, they then have the power. You see it on Youtube all the time. When the Nintendo Wii came out, Wii remote this, wii remote that. I remember seeing weekly the newest video of who could make the Wii play on the smallest screen possible.

Then there is the incident recently with the kid who hacked into the iPhone, he grabbed the country by storm for a few days. But I still am kind of confused at the question asked by Jason Pine. I couldn’t figure out really what this Virtual tie in to the etc was. Perhaps someone could elaborate.