Hi girls and guys. How are you doing?
This time, it's about the Tokyo Hacker Space (THS). My purpose, again, is not to destroy the object of the discussion but to raise questions to improve the overall thing.
First of all, although I have absolutely no experience organizing and attending hacker spaces, I believe that such a space should aim at creating disruptive things, using the values of the country where it' s active.
So I'd say that a hacker space must generate "Local Disruption".
Hackers, what do you think?
Here, obviously we're in Japan.
From my perspective, there are 3 things that are genuinely interesting in Japan:
1- virtual realities: with in particular, 2-dimension worlds (such as mangas) and video games. You still have Nintendo
as a leading innovative company. No need to talk about the manga culture.2- sexuality: after all, a lot of foreign people (male and female) come to Japan because they are interested in Japanese girls and guys (including me), sex wise. Nothing wrong about it. And it's not specific to Japan, you would say. OK, fine.
But fuuzoku (風俗), gokon (合コン), soap land (ソープ), hosto (ホスト), kyabakura (キャバクラ), and love hotels (ラブホ) are specific to Japan.
And this is an area which has to be explored, in case you are interested in rationalizing sexuality, which I am.
provides people with so much sexual information. We must do something about it, besides having sex.
, seriously.3- robotics: I have two companies in mind, right at this very moment.
Cyberdyne and Honda.
Have a look at HAL and Asimo, if you don't know them yet.
Artificial intelligence is something I would love to work on personally but it seems that it requires higher resources than just working on an Arduino.
But, let's go back to the topic of this post. Last Thursday, I went to the first barbecue of THS. It was nice to see such a large place. But I couldn't see people with a special expertise in 1-, 2- or 3-.
Probably I shouldn't be too much demanding right, from the first day.
But more importantly, I couldn't see any people that wanna disrupt things in the good way. If there are no disruptive leaders to follow, how on earth will you be able to construct new things and how on earth are you going to have fun, really?
However there are core members, and the Shannons (Lauren-san in particular) are among them.
Without them, there wouldn't be even any physical place.
Yet, I believe that core members are not enough. You need a bunch of disruptors (Karamoon is one of them.)
Otherwise, the place will become a kinder garden or a bar, very quickly...
I may be wrong but I wanted to give you my take on that.
Again, as we are used to saying at BunkerSofa
, memes are selfish and shameless. We do not criticize the creators. We criticize their creations.Please tell me what you think. Cheers.
