On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.
Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.
Something else has happened with computers.
So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.
My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.