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Always the Next Human

Society, technology, and bodies are all breaking each other. In the coming decades, we are likely to be pushing out the boundaries of our definition of human. Body modification, pharmaceuticals, the justice system, medical research, class systems, psychology and surgery are swept up in the same wave- how we see our selves, [...]

Darknets: fascist gated associations, or intentional community?

A darknet is a private virtual network where people connect only to others they trust. The web is being built in our own image; we bring to it our fears, and our hopes. Some communities are designed to promote social interaction, others are designed to protect and to segregate. [...]

I just came across this great blog post by Ethan Zuckerman, the cofounder of Tripod and a TED attendee, titled BIL and TED, An Excellent Adventure.
If there are amazing people at BIL - both folks who came to TED, and amazing people who simply decided to come into town for BIL - does it become [...]

How to Be a Successful Heretic

In my 12 minutes I will give a light-hearted - but unerringly accurate - string of nuggets of advice, drawn mostly from my own experience of recent years, on how to shepherd a diabolically dangerous idea from conception to world domination (yes, the last part will be drawn from others’ [...]

Here’s a list of different places on the web you can find BIL. If you know of more, post it as a comment.

Facebook Group
Facebook Event
Upcoming Event
Hashtags (for tracking what people say about BIL on twitter).

If you use Twitter and want your tweets picked up by Hashtags, go to Hashtags’ twitter page and click “follow.” Now [...]

We’ve added some of the speakers who’ve confirmed they’ll be speaking at BIL to the website. If you’re planning on speaking, post your information on the wiki and we’ll add it to the site.

Coworking to Coliving — Digital Utopia?

Humanity has always searched for paradise, and the dream of utopia has seeded many unconventional life-structures over the millennium.  In this presentation participants in the ‘Creative Space’ project discuss the successes, challenges and future of another attempt to create a utopian community, one with a Web Two Point Oh spin. [...]

Keeping Context
Context - for years we’ve been searching for information, finding it, using it, sharing and bookmarking it - but how we found it and how we used it is at least as interesting and useful, as what we found. We’re throwing it all that context away - but we don’t have to.  Save the [...]

Digital Graffiti: Art, Advertising, and Anarchy

As the world becomes increasing electronic, the legal definitions of property, public space, and damage change with respect to criminality. The lack of physicality or permanace to many acts potentially labeled as graffiti such as paintless light graffiti (pictured), underground advertising, and nondestructive hacking all blur the borders of [...]

Photography for the Common Man?

Radical drops in the cost of consumer electronics have brought the artistic tools of photography to the masses. Professional photographer Jason Youn will be discussing the philosophy of the photographer as an observer and participant, as well as the impact of photography theory on techniques which help the amateur further [...]