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Reboot talk summary
Bruno Giussani summarized my Reboot talk:
[Hurst's] premise is that while there are numerous advantages in the electronic/online distribution of information (faster, cheaper, deeper, real-time, doesn't require to cut trees, etc) there are also disadvantages. In particular: "bits are not weightless". "Bits have weight, have mass, and they weigh us down even more than when you pick up a stack of newspapers". He's talking about the psychological weight of all the bits that are asking for our attention: e-mail, news, videos, data, etc. Using e-mail ("the culprit that everyone is beginning to love to hate") as an example, he proceeds to lay out his "philosophy on how to deal with bits" which he calls "bit literacy"...
heickendorf took some pictures, too.
