I should have called it start-up culture, but I usually call it Valley culture. Two guys with a slide deck and an idea who call themselves the CEO and the CTO and are looking for a series A raise? Silicon Valley invented that and exported it. It's spread far and wide now, but it's still a small and self-absorbed world compared to all the other stuff going on in tech.
A lot of the innovation on hardware, browsers, and programming languages is coming from big companies, academia, and open source projects. And there's still a lot of hacking. It's just a matter of what crowd you hang out in mostly.
I guess I don't see a direct connection between hardware hacking back in the day and wannabe entrepreneurs. I knew a lot of hardware hackers at MIT, and it's just a different crowd from the web start-up crowd. And engineers at Google, Mozilla, or Apple, say, are inventing the future while knowing very little about start-ups.
A lot of the innovation on hardware, browsers, and programming languages is coming from big companies, academia, and open source projects. And there's still a lot of hacking. It's just a matter of what crowd you hang out in mostly.
I guess I don't see a direct connection between hardware hacking back in the day and wannabe entrepreneurs. I knew a lot of hardware hackers at MIT, and it's just a different crowd from the web start-up crowd. And engineers at Google, Mozilla, or Apple, say, are inventing the future while knowing very little about start-ups.