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He studied Philosophy (and Computer Science as a minor) at the University Of Helsinki and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the same university in 1994 for a thesis on Philosophy Of Religion on ''The challenge of Bertrand Russell '' as the youngest Ph.D. in Finland. He has done research work in Finland ( University Of Helsinki ), the United Kingdom , and the United States ( Stanford University , University Of California, Berkeley ) and has done field work in India , China and Japan . Himanen has also been a counselor to the president of Finland, Finnish government (including the Ministry of Education) and Finnish parliament in the field of Information Society , keeping a sustained dialogue on human-oriented information society with the leading IT companies of the world. Currently, Manuel Castells and Himanen are founding a research centre of information technology and information society. In his book '' HimEros '' written as a Dialogue , Socrates ’ wife Xanthippe relates to the Helsinki an what happened to Socrates in Hades , how Socrates decided to escape from Hades and go to study philosophy at the University Of Helsinki , and how he was arrested, sentenced to death and executed as a result of a three-day conversation with the philosophers of the University. Xanthippe also transmits Socrates’ dialogue with the university teachers of philosophy Cyborg ( Stephen Hawking ), Pope ( John Paul II ), Unabomber ( Theodore Kaczynski ) and Madonna ( Madonna Ciccone). In ''Hacker Ethic'', Himanen is trying to understand the core of Informationalism , the post- Industrialist Paradigm , extending the ideas of Manuel Castells ' ''Information Age''. As an alternative to the industrial-capitalist Protestant Work Ethic he proposes a Hacker Ethic as something like a cyber Communism . This is a new system on the Capitalism , that as if abandons capitalism. The structure of the information society is a web, which in contemporary business world manifests itself, for instance, in dynamic Outsourcing and even cooperation with competitor. The "knots" of such a web get activated according to the needs and opportunities. According to Himanen, the three main features of hacker ethic are:
(So, the spirit of Wikipedia seems to follow hacker ethic.) Manuel Castells thinks that the Innovation s produced by Hacker s are the foundations of the development of the whole culture. According to Himanen, the social hackerism begins from such things as Vegetarianism , whereas the opposite of it is represented by Microsoft and the licensing of Computer Program s. Himanen thinks that in the information society we need a radical lack of prejudice, such as he has met in philosophy lessons to children. A critical challenge of the Internet era is the ability to meet the other human being. BOOKS
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