Ten days after reboot I am closing the Danish part of my year. Things I think I think:
cory doctorow kicked my ass, he’s part of a fight whose outcome will affect how people live around me for a long, long time. I will try to give the guy a hand with logistics in Geneva plus my connections in the local media.
doc searls sparked some intense reflections with his talk, then I got to meet the guy and things became even more intense. We actually barely talked about technology as I tried to pick up all I could on the story of his father who re-enrolled in the army at the age of 36 to free Europe. That part of our transatlantic history, the part made of abnegation, courage and pride. The part we all miss now.
Jimbo Wales is changing the world. It is great to live at a time were one single person can concentrate the energy of so many people on a good cause like wikipedia. If only he could apply all his principles on politics.
I learned a lot I will apply daily on my projects. Strategies to promote my work, how to facilitate change and user adoption, how to use objects to enable interactions between people , how to design and respect the way our brain works, and how I should encourage conversation as it is more and more turning into knowledge .
I now have some of the things I need to shape my picture of the future: I know more about where the mobile phone industry is headed, some of the extraordinary new business models that are appearing, how information will be organized and managed in the future and the direction blogs will develop
I think blogging has completely changed the way I (we) experience conferences. In a way it is great as rewording and structuring my notes has allowed me to think and learn more on the subjects, then communicate that to my coworkers, friends and all the people that read this blog. On the other side it’s hard to listen to speakers when the 10 guys sitting next to you are chatting on the IRC channel. They have their computers open to take notes (officially) and end up cracking jokes for one hour then publish the SubEthaEdit transcript on their blogs. Ben is right, we quickly need a new etiquette (for conferences at least).
One final thing: you should all save the date. Reboot8 happens June 1-3 in 2006.
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