The Internet culture is characterised by four layers: The techno meritocratic culture, the hacker culture, the virtual communitarian culture and the entrepreneurial culture [...]
The culture of the Internet is a culture made up of a technocratic belief in the progress of humans through technology, enacted by communities of hackers thriving on free and open technological creativity, embedded in virtual networks aimed at reinventing society, and materialised by money-driven entrepreneurs into the workings of the new economy
From the book The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies) by Manuel Castells. Via The four holy cows of the Mobile Data industry at Open Gardens.