history of hacking

i couldn't believe that story about how apple computers got started. it's so strange to me that apple computers, which are the pinnical of design and technology, were once being built from spare parts in a garage, by a couple of computer geeks. apple computers seems to dominate so absolutely now that they have dicated the way we expect technology to work, i.e. they have dictated the way our desires work in relation to media.

i wonder what hacking could look like today in a time when technology so quickly follows the the user's desires, or when the user's desires and the technology have such a strong and tightly intertwined relationship.

perhaps a contemporary form of hacking would involve a move away from technology, using compters and web information and web tools to support real-time performance or material art works. in that way the user's output is not province of the web, is not available to those who control the technology and those responsible for upgrading it to meet consumers' desires.

i am thinking in particular of sam shea's youtube plays at the copycat, wherein several groups of artists adapted popular youtube videos and performed them live for an audience.