Harnessing Potential
The recent arrest of 19 year-old Ryan Cleary proved that hackers are everywhere; take a few steps out of your door and you’ll probably be near someone who has a superior knowledge of computers and the internet.
Cleary, a seemingly anti-social boy with little interest in the outside world, was arrested after a number of high-profile attacks. But as the news broke it seemed that Cleary wasn’t the stereotypical geeky teenager that he had first been made out to be. In fact, the more information that was gathered, the more it became clear that Cleary is part of a new wave of hackers: people who live relatively normal – if unusual – lives while maintaining relationships.
Cleary, you see, has a girlfriend. Yes he spends a lot of time online – and by a lot we mean up to 18 hours per day, or essentially whenever he isn’t actually asleep – but in fact he held down a relationship and was actually very sociable. Spending his time online, he and his girlfriend would communicate with hundreds of other internet-addicts every single day.
rather than excluding these people for being different, we should embrace that difference and harness their potential
All this got me thinking: surely these people have more potential than we give them? If Cleary, for example, is capable of breaking into such a high-tech internet site, then surely he is capable of more? I couldn’t help but think, the more and more I read about the case, that we have been missing something with these new wave teenagers. Missing out on helping them integrate into society while also improving their own abilities in a way which we can all benefit from.
Who knows, Cleary and his like might be the start of a new revolution; those who can run the country – plus hybrid cars , all kinds of businesses and even the government – from their own homes.
Perhaps, rather than excluding these people for being different, we should embrace that difference and harness their potential for their good and ours?
Of course, it’s a double-edged sword: while the new wave are technologically capable of achieving in jobs, they also pose an imminent threat. A threat which many large companies rather hope would go away and never come back.
That said, they need to realise that there is no disappearing these teenagers. And, as technology gets ever more advanced, there will come a tipping point when it may just be them against the world – even more reason to unite as one if you ask me.
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