“Tech community never lacked ideas which made their gatherings original. Such was the recently held, curiously named “Nothing Will Happen” anti-conference, certainly the most prominent event based on fusing Internet technologies and the social aspect of technology adoption.” via Nothing will happen: from e-books to drones.
However, as Mars pointed out in his talk, the public library itself is currently under a financial, social and political threat. Furthermore, there is still the question which actors can take up its role in the virtual world. Proprietary platforms like Google or Amazon have already stated their ambitions to become such global knowledge keepers, […]
El proyecto alternativo de Marcell Mars es un cohete en comparación con el tractor del cuadro institucional descrito anteriormente. Su propuesta está en consonancia con la de la cultura abierta: la herencia documental del mundo nos pertenece a todos y debe ser preservada y protegida para que podamos acceder a ella sin restricciones. Tarea acometida por colectivos como Bookcamping, El […]
The Internet brought the dream of providing access to all knowledge to everyone suddenly within reach. The Universal Public Library once seemed inevitable, a simple intersection of the trajectory curves of global personal computer distribution and Internet access penetration. However, the actual trajectory of the development is pointing in the opposite direction – libraries are […]
Public Library provides a proposal for how we might design a library for the digital age, and there is much that sceptics of digital reading will find to criticise. To them, I say that it is perhaps better to understand Public Library as an artwork rather than an answer. David Garcia suggests that Public Library substitutes Joseph Beuys’s […]
???_Anoni_nisu_pokret,_anoni_su_ideja_??? je ideja. Ta ideja je zbog svoje kompleksnosti vrlo zavodljiva (specifi??nom (suvremenom) senzibilitetu) i ona mobilizira jako puno ljudi u pokret oko sebe. Pokret koji za sebe ka??e da nije pokret je, naravno i…