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"By attaching directional antennae to conventional access points, wireless hackers have been able to transfer data over tens of miles. These antennae don't have to be fancy. Wi-Fi hackers in the United States have built long-distance Wi-Fi antennae from Pringles potato chip cans." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Make is what you'd get if your school's science fair was run by hackers, home energy nuts, and mad inventors in Day-Glo lab coats. Every issue bends your mind. Even for those of us who couldn't solder a circuit if the fate of the world hung in the balance, it's great fun. as Radical Simplicity: Creating an Authentic Life by Dan Price (Running Press, 2005) This fantastically accessible book, filled with photographs and hand-drawn diagrams of underground houses, handmade saunas, and all-natural domes, is Dan Price's DIY guide to a simpler life." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Their authors, however, often don't regard themselves as media artists but as engineers, architects, designers, or hackers. Those who do define themselves as artists usually operate outside contemporary art circles; you won't find their work in contemporary art exhibitions, magazines, or galleries. Regardless of context, these works accomplish what art should accomplish: they trigger new experiences that transform our perceptions of what is and what could be." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Wi-Fi hackers in the United States have built long-distance Wi-Fi antennae from Pringles potato chip cans. Using materials commonly available in Bamako, Mali —plastic water bottles, used valve stems from motorbikes, window-screen mesh, television and low-cost coaxial cables —a team from the volunteer organization Geekcorps has started producing long-range antennae designed to connect radio stations to the Internet, for less than a dollar apiece. In Himalayan Nepal, modified television antennae connect rural villages to an Internet access point 22 miles (35 kilometers) away." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Its disc was examined for preloaded material (there was little software in those days, in any case; hackers and other geeks were a long way into the future). Webster and his girlfriend checked the locks on the house and left the computer running in the kitchen. Another message appeared in the same quirky 'mock Tudor' style. Webster decided to type in a reply and, astonishingly, this was met with a further response. Two-way communications began in earnest with a male entity who declared himself to be one Tomas Harden, which lasted over a period of sixteen months." - Keith Scott-Mumby, Virtual Medicine: A New Dimension in Energy Healing (Get the book.)

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