I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things.
You affect the world by what you browse.
I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.
The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.