Rael Dornfest starts the day talking a bit about how ETech started and what it has become. The hackers 'hands-on imperative' is about opening up a box that they're not supposed to and taking the magic out of it.

The gap between the alpha geek (consumer[0]) and the 'prosumer' (consumer[n]) is narrowing. How many non-geeks carry a Treo in their pockets?  According to Rael this is the right time to hack because the PC has been around for 20 years, hidden features are becoming obvious due to exceeding number of eyeballs, and the tendency for openness.

The word of ETech is remix. Remix rather than hack.

• Remix the web using 'view source', Firefox, JavaScript, desktop integration.

• Remix the music, rip. Music industry was deaf, and customers weren't listening well; but things are changing

• Remix TV. 30 sec skip, TiVo is leaving things open and they're talking again with Commcast (Note to self, check Engadget's TiVo death watch)

• Remix your network. WiFi, hotspots, etc

• Remix your movies. BitTorrent, VOD, Netflix

• Remix your data. Scraping then XML then APIs.

• Remx your text. I'm blogging this."

• Remix your syndication. RSS allowed My Nertscape compete with Yahoo and now My Yahoo has become a RSS aggregator.

• Remix your bookshelf. Google Libray,

• Remix IT. Hacks like Apache, become frameworks.

• Remix the browser (again). Firefox is the darling ofthe IT department and the family sysadmin and makes Windows usable.

• Remix brick-and-mortar (again).

• Remix space. Spaceship One.