Class-16.

The hacker class, producer of new abstractions,
becomes more important to each successive ruling
class, as each depends more and more on information
as a resource. The hacker class arises out of the
transformation of information into property, in the
form of intellectual property, including patents,
trademarks, copyright and the moral right of
authors. The hacker class is the class with the
capacity to create not only new kinds of object and
subject in the world, not only new kinds of property
form in which they may be represented, but new
kinds of relation beyond the property form. The
formation of the hacker class as a class comes
at just this moment when freedom from necessity
and from class domination appears on the horizon
as a possibility.

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