I recently embraced my inner streber or geek by heading to re:publica, one of, if not the, leading European conference on society, social media and the internet. It was fascinating to meet with and hear from a range of presenters speaking on topics as diverse as the hacking organisation,Anonymous, and hear a panel discussion…
On my way to my first ever NEXT in a huge former power station in the no-man’s land known as Gleis Drei-Eck, the first thing that struck me was that I had no idea where I was going. I was just using my google maps to find it and having never been before, I literally…
“Creative imagination awakens early. As children, we are all ‘makers’. Later, as a rule, we’re broken of the habit; so the art of being a creative writer consists, among other things, in not allowing life or people or money to turn us aside from it.”
– Stig Dagerman (1923-1954), Swedish Philosopher