Thursday, January 19, 2006
"Hacking is a Playful Act"
As found on the site for the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference on a page describing a presentation called "playsh, the Playful Shell"
"Hacking is a playful act. In a primal sense, play is the investigation and experimentation with borders and combinations. It is how children establish a model of their surroundings and how animals explore relationships and social dynamics...Despite early, highly structured approaches to the sociability of computing in mainframe laboratories, computing has evolved a culture of iterative experimental hacking that is essentially playful."
And this, regarding playsh: "It is a narrative-driven 'object navigation' client, operating primarily on the semantic level, casting your hacking environment as a high-level, shell-based, social prototyping laboratory, a playground for recombinant network toys."
And this: "You have been eaten by a Grue."
"Hacking is a playful act. In a primal sense, play is the investigation and experimentation with borders and combinations. It is how children establish a model of their surroundings and how animals explore relationships and social dynamics...Despite early, highly structured approaches to the sociability of computing in mainframe laboratories, computing has evolved a culture of iterative experimental hacking that is essentially playful."
And this, regarding playsh: "It is a narrative-driven 'object navigation' client, operating primarily on the semantic level, casting your hacking environment as a high-level, shell-based, social prototyping laboratory, a playground for recombinant network toys."
And this: "You have been eaten by a Grue."
Labels: playfulness, theory
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