My main caution about how you framed the challenge is with the constraint of familiarity(hackers fix systems), which can take us nowhere in a hurry. Often, it's

My main caution about how you framed the challenge is with the constraint of familiarity(hackers fix systems), which can take us nowhere in a hurry. Often, it's pushing a philosophical angle that can drive technical work into the supporting role of a big, positive change. Here is a relevant selection of general wisdom quotes I've collected/made for myself and keep in a notes file: Competition is the source of complexity in society; cooperation, in individuals. Sources of power exist by consent; anarchic elements are checks on system stability. Cycles exist everywhere and are bigger than we can observe. When you understand yourself better, you're also better to other people. Creative works should be based on selfishness and tempered by principle. Putting some of those things into practice, I see myself existing in a period that is increasingly communitarian, in backlash against the individualism of previous years; but where the role of the community is also far more distributed and ephemeral than in the past, with the consequence being that our relationships are individually complex, rather than being centered around formal institutions that antagonize each other. It's not that the complexity will go away, it just moves around and catalyzes societal changes. As such, I also believe that progressing further towards the communitarian mode will unravel other problems currently faced by Western society. Redistributing the burden of our systems enables us to change our approach and implement policies that wouldn't fly previously. Of course, to put this thought into action leads me towards those last quotes: You have to know, very deeply, that the thing you're going to create is something you want to exist, and then inform it against the external concerns. Doing that well means that you can't lie to yourself.