Hacking Society
Hacking Society, held April 24, 2012 at Union Square Ventures in NYC, brought together a small group of thinkers and doers to discuss how networks are transforming our economy and society, and what this means for the future of innovation, competition, regulation and policy advocacy.
- What you'll find below is a small selection of quotes, tweets, photos and links from throughout the day -- not an complete accounting. But stay tuned - over the coming weeks, we'll be posting the full audio recording, the full video recording, video clips, and a complete text transcription.
Hacking SocietyApril 24th, 2012, 10am-4:30pm @ Union Square Ventures Hacking Society brings together a small group of thinkers and doers to discuss how ...@stevenbjohnson
Steven Johnson At Union Square Ventures for Hacking Society with many of my heroes. #hacksociety should be interesting today http://t.co/2tZghPLe
Favorite Retweet- @mtscozer captures the essence of the day's agenda:
- Yochai Benkler opened up the discussion w/ a brief review of how networks -- networks of people on top of the internet -- are transforming our economy, society, and democracy. If you haven't seen it, he wrote a book on this topic.
"We're seeing a transformation of capitalism & democracy on very similar lines"-@ybenkler j.mp/IOEbt8 #hacksociety- Beth Noveck has written a book on this subject as well.
#hacksociety discussion covering both negative liberty agenda of Internet freedom and positive rights agenda of promoting peer production.
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Alex Bangash "The internet is a belief system." @joiito quoted by Mark Surman at #hacksociety.
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Joichi Ito: Innovating by the Seat of Our PantsThe Internet isn't really a technology. It's a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation...
"The internet is not the problem. The internet is the solution." - @aweissman on @BradUSV as the internet's Don Draper at #hacksociety- This post by USV's Brad Burnham takes this idea, and Joi's notion of the Internet as a belief system a bit further:
- I Believe In The Internet - The Content Industry Doesn'tI have always believed that the entertainment industry's effort to stop piracy by asking search engines and ISPs to make it more difficul...
- Early on in the discussion Yancey Stricker (co-founder of Kickstarter) eloquently captured what we mean when we talk about networks:
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Mike Masnick "we're talking about networks of us." - @ystrickler #hacksociety
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Yancy Strickler: There are increasing numbers of people who think of themselves as citizens of the Internet. #hacksociety
#hacksociety "the Internet is like the 8th continent and not an institution" exactly.
Will the power that be be OK with such internet citizenship overtaking them? #hacksociety
Implicit in so much of the conversation at #hacksociety is threat to the net and its freedoms and opportunities.
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Nick GrossmanSorry, that's so weird! The tweets went out automatically after making this so I'm not sure why... 2012-05-08T18:15:12.506Z
Francisco GeorgeStrange I received a Tweet saying that you mentioned me but I can't find me anywhere ;-)2012-05-08T17:21:17.143Z
- Nick GrossmanSorry, that's so weird! The tweets went out automatically after making this so I'm not sure why... 2012-05-08T18:15:12.506Z
- Francisco GeorgeStrange I received a Tweet saying that you mentioned me but I can't find me anywhere ;-)2012-05-08T17:21:17.143Z
