> The “hacker” model is better: given imagination and determination, we can bend technologies to our will. Thus we should stop thinking about “what technology wants” and start thinking about how to cultivate imagination and determination. Speaking of “what technology wants” is an unerring symptom of akrasia — a lack of self-control — and a way of deflecting responsibility for our actions. [source](http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/attending-to-technology-theses-for-disputation)

See the reverse of this in [[Brains aren’t computers]]