The impact of the Pro-Am revolution on the design industry: a panel discussion. Helsinki, at 5:00 pm on September 22nd, 2005.
Passionate amateurs are reshaping the field of design and innovation. Music, technology, movies, websites, and also fashion is increasingly produced by an emerging class of so-called ‘professional amateurs.’ Will the pro-am revolution disrupt the design industry? What should professional designers do in the future?
Interesting event.

We live in interesting times
“We live in interesting times” is a very easy statement these days. The “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists” rhetorics from the President of the SuperPower of the world creates a culture where the Worlds Richest Man can say the equivalent of “Either you’re for Digital Rights Management or you’re a Communist”.
But topping it today is the The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions pulling 10,000 dollars in support of the Danish Music Critics Prize where they had nominated a civil rights …

Brockman: THE NEW HUMANISTS

“Evolution is cleverer than you are”
Leslie Orgel

Leonardo’s Laptop – Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
New book by Ben Schneidermann.

Paul Saffo: It’s the Context, Stupid

Public Knowledge – The Public’s Voice in the Digital Age

“Machines compute. Humans think.”

development by design : Conference, Bangalore, Dec 1-2, 2002 – 2nd International Conference on Open Collaborative Design for Sustainable Innovation

Amazon.com: Digital Biology – “an entertaining look at the ways in which systems of nature are influencing advances in computer research”