Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | 3:30pm to 5pm
About this Event
160 MEMORIAL DR, Cambridge, MA 02139
From the 1960s through the mid-1980s, phone phreaks and computer hackers authored piercing critiques of U.S. political economy, especially the telephone lines and computer networks that served as its central nervous system. But as hackers interacted with the companies, regulators, and professionals who governed the system, hackers integrated themselves into the system as experts, professionals, and reformers—and by the 1990s, the system welcomed their arrival.
Presented by:
JACOB BRUGGEMAN
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University