Joichi Ito and the Ars Electronica people have invited me to join them for this conference that is promising to be very unique. I will be giving a talk on September 5, 2008 - join me if you are somewhere close by (this event is held in Linz, Austria). This is what Joi says about it:
"Computers and the Internet has lowered
the cost of communication and the creation and distribution of
information so much that many fundamental notions of organizations,
economics and property have completely changed or require major
upgrades. There is a new generation of youth across the globe which
lead the charge into this changing world, modifying their basic
behaviors to adapt to technology as it develops. Some businesses and
artists have been able to keep up with these trends while other
struggle and fail. The much slower to adapt legal system is being
pushed to its limits with organizations on all sides of the issues
trying very hard to adapt outdated laws. Most of the new behaviors and
organizations creating value have a completely different notion
property. Intellectual property, while key to the post-industrial
revolution nature of the firm, is more of an encumbrance than an asset
to the sharing oriented mode of creation now central to the Internet.
This year, we will bring together the users, artists, businesses,
policy makers and academics involved intentionally or beyond their
control in this change to understand this new world and to try to adapt
to it."
(Joichi Ito)
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