Shareable: The Evolution Will Be Socialized - by Douglas Rushkoff
The first summit, to be held October 20, 2011 as a MeetupEverywhere and centered at the historic Angel Orensanz Center in New York City, will be a participatory festival for ideas and action, consisting primarily of meetings convened by attendees. Featured participants will deliver brief "provocations" on stage, sharing the greatest challenges they are facing in their particular fields. But their primary contribution to the day will be to join in the meetings convened by other participants, sharing their experience, insight, and even connections to help bring these ideas into reality.
If it’s not the only thing of its kind in the world, so much the better. Let’s connect, conceive, and conspire. Contact isn’t a way of competing with those efforts, but supporting them.
Topics I’m opening for discussion include:
TECHNOLOGY
- Can we build an alternative Internet that can't be turned off?
- Alternatives to top-down registries and corporate-controlled access
BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
- New net-based currencies and transaction networks
- Net-enabled Local Activism and Job Creation
CULTURE
- Arts networking initiatives
- Decentralized social networking platforms
GOVERNMENT
- Proxy voting to expert friends
- open source democracy
- "Filter Bubbles" and how to prevent them
MEANING
- What Factors Facilitate Collective Intelligence?
- The Reclamation of Public Space
But please feel invited to bring your own. I may be initiating this thing, but I am by no means in charge.
