This movie was very interesting and made me think a lot about history and how it is written by the victors. The Hackers weren’t these international terrorists, they were American’s, who like there forefathers before them, were pioneers in something that shaped the world as we know it. Without there ambition and love for their craft there is no evidence we would be were we are with technology, they led the way by coming together going where no one had gone before. It was people like Bill Gates who wanted to use the innovations to make money who inevitably destroyed the creative process which brought about many early innovations. I’m not saying that Bill Gates was completely wrong for wanting to make money because without companies like Microsoft and Apple, America may not be the top nation in the world. Had the creative process remained a free information style of innovation another country could have cashed in on the opportunity.

In a legal sense the movie showed me how corporations and people in government have control over history and how they can (to some extent) shape how our society views various things. Before watching this movie I had always associated hacking with a negative connotation and believed they were and always had been bad people, or digital thieves. To my surprise the origins of this word came from the innovators developed the technology. It was Hollywood and the media that transformed this word be thought of as the names of digital thieves of the 21st century. Yes there are some bad people in the world who would and do use this technology for “evil” but to categorize and mislabel the innovators who first designed the technology is doing such a great injustice to these brillant men and women that it seems almost immoral to use the word in that sense. How can a country so dependent on these things wrongfully name and categorize the people who created them. They put in countless hours working towards their idea of the future and were able to bring it to masses at reasonable prices. To categorize them with thieves and con-artists who misuse the technology is wrong on so many levels.

This goes to show how in history the victors write the books. The men and women who influenced the media and Hollywood to transform the word and disallow the free sharing of information may not have realized what they were doing, and to this day may still believe they did the “American” thing but I will never again fall for such  shortcomings and wrongdoings.