The essay defined hacker in a clear and focused manner. Clearly it's broader than the definition than you would choose, but I suspect it might also exclude thin

The essay defined hacker in a clear and focused manner. Clearly it's broader than the definition than you would choose, but I suspect it might also exclude things you might define as hacking. My impression is that people expect hacking to require the use of technology, but that doesn't necessarily mean what we would expect it to. A chopstick is after all a technological tool. We might restrict it to electricity, but then that might preclude mechanical devices, so perhaps we allow machinery in general, but then a pair of chopsticks might be a sort of simple machine...