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Phi Beta Iota: Jon Lebkowsky, himself a hero of the Hacker Revolution, has done something cool here.
- 01 At Southby, science fiction authors talk like they know what’s going on.
- 02 “There are people here who are younger than the event.”
- 03 All the political language has been rendered toxic.
- 04 Polarizing brand management. Culture wars. Politics from POV of a design critic.
- 05 As a design critic, I criticize stuff that doesn’t exist yet.
- 06 Bruce Sterling shows Worldchanging 2.0 (the book) at sxsw.
- 07 Passionate virtuosity…. the ideas in Worldchanging 2.0 are passionate but lack virtuosity.
- 08 We’ve got a series of problems that are poorly recognized.
- 09 In our society, we don’t have any passionate virtuosity.Our political situation is the opposite, disgusted incompetence.
- 10 Craig Ventner was at SXSW because he’s trying to reframe 20c genetic engineeering as 21stc synthetic biology.
- 11 Beautiful social network for synthetic biology: http://bit.ly/ei4Wja (expand)
- 12 You cn do whatever you want to a microbe and no hippie will show up with a protest sign. Microbes are not in the Bible.
- 13 ExxonMobil is the personification of corporate evil. (applause)
- 14 ExxonMobil are not the only political malefactors, they’re just the best connected.
- 15 Talking about Berlusconi – he’s a head of state behaving like Hugh Hefner. This is a big deal in Italy.
- 16 People don’t want to throw Berlusconi out, because they fear some kind of economic upheaval.
- 17 Republicans: “a joke to anyone outside the range of Fox News.”
- 18 Catholic Church borgia-like devil’s bargain with Berlusconi to get the legislation they want.
- 19 Obese people in the US: “Imagine if the Statue of Liberty looked like that.” It brings out one’s inner Bill Hicks.
- 20 What worries me is the response to things that take courage and virtuosity and passion to work out, like disaster response.
- 21 Who would save us from the BP? We’re incapable of rapid deciseve action, and the world demands that sometimes.
- 22 They pretend to govern, we pretend to obey.
- 23 Young people are the victims of a decaying status qo.
- 24 Boomers, shut up! What you should study now is collaborative consumption, technomadism.
- 25 You need to take power, millenials. I’ll vote for ya! You need a global youth movement.
- 26 “Move to Austin, take over the town!”
- 27 This is an era of organized deception! Days of rage, baby. Be realistic, demand the impossible.
- 28 Closing with a Garibaldi quote. “I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battle, and death.” And people went for that.
- 29 “Women of Italy, cast away all the cowards from your embraces.” SXSW looks like a new world because it’s got women in it.
Reference: The Kids Are All Right–Mad as Hell!