Pekka Himanen (born October 19, 1973) is a Finnish philosopher. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2021x1837, 809 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Pekka Himanen ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2021x1837, 809 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Pekka Himanen ... October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ...

He studied philosophy (and computer science as a minor) at the University of Helsinki and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the same university in 1994 for a thesis on philosophy of religion on The challenge of Bertrand Russell as the youngest Ph.D. in Finland. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland. ... Philosophy of religion is the rational study of the meaning and justification of fundamental religious claims, particularly about the nature and existence of God (or gods, or the divine). ... Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, and mathematician, working mostly in the 20th century. ...

He has done research work in Finland (University of Helsinki), the United Kingdom, and the United States (Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley) and has done field work in India, China and Japan. The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland. ... Stanford redirects here. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ...

Himanen has also been a counselor to the president of Finland, Finnish government (including the Ministry of Education) and Finnish parliament in the field of information society, keeping a sustained dialogue on human-oriented information society with the leading IT companies of the world. This article is about a new type of society called an Information Society. ... Information Technology (IT)[1] is a broad subject concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information, especially in large organizations. ...

Currently, Manuel Castells and Himanen are founding a research centre of information technology and information society. Manuel Castells (b. ...

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In Hacker Ethic, Himanen is trying to understand the core of informationalism, the post-industrialist paradigm, extending the ideas of Manuel Castells' Information Age. As an alternative to the industrial-capitalist protestant work ethic he proposes a hacker ethic as something like a cyber communism. This is a new system on the capitalism, that as if abandons capitalism. The structure of the information society is a web, which in contemporary business world manifests itself, for instance, in dynamic outsourcing and even cooperation with one's competitors. The "knots" of such a web get activated according to the needs and opportunities. Information Age is a term applied to the period where movement of information became faster than physical movement, it is also more narrowly applied to the late 20th century and early 21st century post 1970. ... The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the massive social, economic, and technological change in 18th century and 19th century Great Britain. ... Since the late 1960s, the word paradigm (IPA: ) has referred to a thought pattern in any scientific discipline or other epistemological context. ... Manuel Castells (b. ... The Protestant work ethic — also known as the Puritan work ethic — is a biblically based teaching on the necessity of hard work, perfection and the goodness of labor. ... In modern parlance, the hacker ethic is either: the belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and computing resources wherever possible; and/or the belief that... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... For other uses, see Capitalism (disambiguation). ... Outsourcing (or contracting out) is often defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production within a business to an external entity (such as a subcontractor) that specializes in that operation. ...

According to Himanen, the three main features of hacker ethic are:

• enthusiastic, passionate attitude to the work that is enjoyed
• creativity, wish to realize oneself and one's ability, often in teams that are formed spontaneously (project orientation)
• wish to share one's skills with a community having common goals, along with the need to acquire recognition from one's "tribe"; one is motivated by inner zeal rather than external awards: the fruits of one's work are donated to everybody for their advances and further developments

Manuel Castells thinks that the innovations produced by hackers are the foundations of the development of the whole culture. According to Himanen, the social hackerism begins from such things as vegetarianism, whereas the opposite of it is represented by Microsoft and the licensing of computer programs. Himanen thinks that in the information society we need a radical lack of prejudice, such as he has met in philosophy lessons to children. A critical challenge of the Internet era is the ability to meet the other human being. Creative (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. ... Manuel Castells (b. ... Hackers are sometimes portrayed as mysterious and strange. ... Vegetarianism is the practice of not consuming meat, with or without the use of other animal derivatives, such as dairy products or eggs. ... The Microsoft Corporation, commonly known as just Microsoft, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual sales of US$44. ... The terms computer program, software program, applications program, system software, or just program are used to refer to either an executable program by both lay people and computer programmers or the collection of source code from which an executable program is created (eg, compiled). ...

Books

• HimEros (1996)
• Filosofian oikeudenkäynti (The trial of philosophy, 1998)
• The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age (foreword by Linus Torvalds, afterword by Manuel Castells, 2001)
• Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen. The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model (2002)
• Challenges of the Global Information Society, report for the Committee for the Future in Parliament of Finland (2004). http://www.eduskunta.fi/efakta/vk/tuv/challenges_of_the_globalinformationsociety.pdf
• Rakkaus (Love) to appear (2004).

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of Linux. ... Manuel Castells (b. ... Manuel Castells (b. ...

Awards

• 1994 Finnish State Award for Popular Science (for the talk series Joulukalenteri (Christmas Calendar))
• 1998 European multimedia award Europrix for the CD Sokrates (Socrates)

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External links

• Pekka Himanen's homepage