Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand

Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by jsemrau on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @09:48AM (#28930642)

The book is even worse than the movie, IMHO. Shamelessly plugging my own article [1] But the movie had the potential to be a cultural game-changer in the same way as Hackers and surely The Matrix had to the adoption and "coolness" of the Internet at the turn of the century.

[1]https://medium.com/@jsemrau/hackers-vs-ready-player-one-b6ad...

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by teakettle42 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:11AM (#28931612)

> I was one of these young software engineers that saw Hackers back in 1995 and was totally blown away by the potential shown of network technology.

> … Hackers (1995), which after more than 20 years, holds still up amazingly well.

I’m not sure you’re demonstrating any appreciable sense of objectivity here.

Hackers was an absolute joke of a movie; an exaggerated snapshot of ridiculous, misinformed 1990s pop culture thinking on technology.

Ready Player One is pop culture fan service, played out amidst a dystopian corporate future. It’s not even really trying to discuss technology at all.

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by pram on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:52AM (#28932200)

Hackers was a joke but it has an enduring cultural cachet with IT nerds at least. I hear "hack the planet" and references to "the gibson" all the time still. I don't think I've ever heard a single IRL reference to anything in RPO

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by Apocryphon on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:31PM (#28932691)

There were plenty of references, but they were to the same '80s pop culture that the book worships. Really, all of the VR tech was just a plot device to create a magic world where that Gen X nostalgia never ends.

Ready Player One tells us about technology about as much as Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 does.

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by sushisource on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:47PM (#28932905)

Huh? People refer to corny one liners from Arnie movies too, that doesn't mean they had a philosophical impact on the way those people think about guns, or whatever.

Hackers is a hilarious and fun over the top movie but I don't think it changed the way anyone thinks about technology.

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by pram on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:56PM (#28933021)

I didn't say it did.

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by jsemrau on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:40PM (#28937750)

Hacker surely was exaggerated, ridiculous, and misinformed but it made tech "cool".

I believe that Metaverse tech, which is currently at the same stage is isolationistic and enjoyed by a fringe of users. Same as the Internet was seen in the early '90s.

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Re:Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand by r00fus on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:41PM (#28934414)

The Matrix, yes. Absolutely iconic even to this day. Hackers was known by no-one I knew. Sneakers was a much better movie and still relatable.

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