Who’s the Hacker?

Before the era of cybercrime, hacking for social, political, or religious causes (so-called hacktivism), and terrorist threats to our infrastructure and monetary systems, the hacker started as an explorer and traveler on the data superhighway. Today, we can still categorize some hackers as explorers. In fact, the title “hacker” carried the pejorative meaning only recently.

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Who’s the Hacker?

Before the era of cybercrime, hacking for social, political, or religious causes (so-called hacktivism), and terrorist threats to our infrastructure and monetary systems, the hacker started as an explorer and traveler on the data superhighway. Today, we can still categorize some hackers as explorers. In fact, the title “hacker” carried the pejorative meaning only recently.

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Getting Through To Learners

Modern learners are constantly bombarded by information.
Formally and informally, trainees receive mountains of tips, suggestions and rules of thumb aimed at improving workplace performance. Our brains are remarkably well-equipped for dealing with this kind of information overload – they just filter most of it out. In fact, the majority of what we “learn” never enters our memories in the first place.

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