Charles van der Haegen's List: Emergent collective

"K21st is created as a nexus of information and points of view, to allow us to be better prepared and more equipped to deal with the world in its accelerating change. K21st aims to aggregate the best of the best of new knowledge, fresh insights, contemporary visions and technological innovations.
The main themes here will be:

* Science, Technology and Futurism
* Brain and Neuroscience
* Biology, Biotechnology, Genetics and Medicine
* Environment
* Physics and Philosophy
* Art and Design
* Artificial Intelligence
* Systems and Complexity
* The Web

Futurism, as its name implies, deals with the future, yet in our case the future is here, now, and for this state of affairs to come to fruition we need an appropriate knowledge reference.
That is where K21st enters the picture. We wish to join the large and growing community of bloggers and web sites that lead the way, see our links collection for that.

We need be curious, curious not only about that which was, and that which is but more importantly curious of that which we are becoming and that which we may or will become, individually, as a society, and as a species.
As the lattice grows and information flows, our minds converge, into a single, fiercely independent, decidedly autonomous, highly intelligent, and self-propelling emergent infoverse. To this infoverse K21st is to be a compass of sorts, a beacon and maybe an inspiration.

The future promises to be not only more fantastic than what we have imagined, but probably more interesting than what we could have believed just a few years ago.

Enjoy, share and contribute.

K21st –the team"

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If you are taking the time to read this website you are one of a small and fortunate group of humans today who question what our universal, biological, and technological history of accelerating change may mean for the future and larger purpose of humanity.

It takes educational privilege, curiosity, insight, courage, and mental freedom to engage in this investigation. Almost all of today's religous, philosophical, political, and even our scientific texts are curiously silent on the existence and implications of our record of ever faster emergence of physical-computational systems in universal history. Given our current knowledge of the laws of physics and chemistry, and our record of accelerating performance gains in miniaturizing electronic systems, it presently appears that this accelerating trend will continue as far as we can see into our extraordinary future.

Accelerating information and communication technologies have today become the most dynamic systems in modern society. Faced with the daunting prospect of further acceleration in their capacity, most people presently either deny the possibility, or ignore the phenomenon entirely. We believe that the evidence is strongly against the first response, and that the second response is unwise.

The philosopher-technologist Archimedes said: "give me a lever and a place to stand upon and I will move the world." It is clear that the lever we have been given for this phase of human existence is accelerating technological change, and the types of world-moving we wish to do are in our hands. Let us choose wisely.

Learning about accelerating change from a broad and multidisciplinary perspective is a major purpose of this website. We seek to accumulate some of the most incisive thoughts on these topics from a range of careful future thinkers, and to provide a number of synthetic interpretations, including one, the developmental singularity hypothesis, originally formulated by myself, the site's primary author, John Smart.

If you are willing to look beyond our natural human-centric, ego-centric biases and consider humanity's larger role in the process of creating local accelerating change, you may find the spiritual picture that emerges is deeply satisfying, and the insights you can gain in terms of how to interact with today's technologies are immensely practical and relevant to your daily life. Outreach, education, research, and selective advocacy of communities and technologies of accelerating change is a major purpose of our affiliated nonprofit organization, the Acceleration Studies Foundation. I encourage you to visit that website, attend our occasional conferences, join our listserves, and add your voice to the community.

While the genesis of these ideas began in written form over a century ago (see our Brief History of Intellectual Discussion of Accelerating Change) even today few people presently investigate, or critique universal and global trends in accelerating change broadly, carefully, or systematically. Those who do so commonly call themselves futurists, transhumanists, or most helpfully, systems theorists. Marcel Proust has said "the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." If you are seeking others seriously striving to perceive our accelerating world 'with new eyes,' and to share those insights with others, welcome to our small community.

Thank you for taking the time to carefully consider these fascinating, speculative, and at times disturbing ideas. I hope you'll consider our websites and community efforts worthy of your continuing support. If you have comments, find errors, have people or resources to recommend, or have any other feedback to share, please send a brief message to mail{at}accelerating{dot}org"

"y name is Gideon Rosenblatt. Thanks for stopping by. My writings here on Alchemy of Change cover a range of topics, but pivot on a central theme, which is keeping humanity burning bright in the organizations, technologies and other stuff we build.

I write mostly about the impact that technology has on people, organizations and society. Here’s a quick overview of what I cover on Alchemy of Change.

I’m a technologist with a background in business and social change. I worked at Microsoft for nearly ten years in marketing and building building some pretty cool stuff. I then ran a mission-driven technology consulting group, called Groundwire. Now I write. Want more detail? Here’s my full story."

"Over the next decade and beyond, a tremendous opportunity exists to profit from the emergence of a new paradigm in financial services and markets. Disruptive business models, products and services - enabled by exponential improvements in technology - will fundamentally challenge incumbent firms and market structures. These new approaches will drive a reconfiguration of the financial industry and the structure of many markets within the wider economy.

Anthemis was created in order to take advantage of this opportunity. Marrying patient long-term growth capital with expert operational and strategic advice, we seek to create wealth for all of our stakeholders by anticipating and catalyzing change through investments in entrepreneurs and companies that will lead and shape the new industry paradigm."
Written and produced by Sean Park in the fall of 2010 for Sibos 2010, this video sets the scene for a vision of profound change in the financial services industry over the next two decades, in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008. Driven and enabled both by accelerating technological progress and the accompanying fundamental long-term changes in our societies and economies, Anthemis believes that opportunities for significant and disruptive innovations in the financial industry have never been greater.

We are currently working on producing a longer 'mini-documentary' exploring these themes in more detail and particularly focusing on developing potential outcomes and changes that could emerge over the next 20 years. If you are interested i

"Welcome. My web site is a catch-all for the strange projects and activities that I’m involved in. Friends who know I’m not good about sending correspondence or newsletters have encouraged me to provide a central place to keep up.

The truth is that since my first web site in 1995, I really haven’t been reliable for posting much about myself. Now I’m being poked, prodded and supported in doing so. So I hope to do better.

I spend most of my time and energy on projects that I believe support and accelerate the harmonious evolution of humanity. We live in strange and miraculous times. Rapid transition and transformation surround us, but the outcomes of these transitions are still uncertain. I believe that humanity has much greater capacities than we currently employ. I am working to unleash those capacities for the mutual benefit of all.

You can find out more about me on the bottom of this page or learn about projects old and new. I’m also trying to include regular media from my activities on the “go deeper” page."

"This blog explains the reasoning behind the quest to find out how organizational forms will look like in the future, and which form, or forms, will be dominant and sustainable on the long term. The initial assumption is that, because of the Internet and various personal motivations, self-organization can be such a form, and (mass) collaboration will be one of the important methods to communicate and work together. Therefore the focus will be on self-organization and online collaborative spaces.

In my professional life I work a social business consultancy. We help other companies creating a dialogue with their employees or clients. We manage the dialogue between all the people involved. To accomplish this we develop a program, we make an interactive webbased platform available and guide all this by managing a transparent process. More info on the Favela Fabric website.

Besides that I’m a member of the P2P Foundation where we study the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society, founded by Michel Bauwens.

In 2006 I graduated with honors for the Master’s Information Sciences – Business Information Systems at the University of Amsterdam. My thesis ‘Customization and personalization in the Internet economy’ can be downloaded here."

"Humanity is now at a critical juncture. As Paul Hawken succinctly put it in his inspiring address to Portland University’s graduate class in May of 2009, “civilization needs a new operating system,” and fast. Many of the socio-economic rules under which we operate were created under a worldview that failed to recognize that the earth is a living system and that every form of life has its unique and valuable place and purpose in sustaining the larger web of life. "

Interesting first page...
Also reference to about me

"My expertise is creating systems to change human behavior. I call this “Behavior Design.”

I devote about 50% of my time to Stanford and 50% to industry innovation. For me, working in both worlds makes sense: My Stanford work makes me better in industry. And what I learn in industry improves my Stanford research. I’m always eager to help other innovators. (see how to book time with me)

To experience how behavior change works, join my “3 Tiny Habits” program. It’s simple and free.
To stay current on me, follow me on Twitter.
To learn my methods in behavior design, attend my Persuasion Boot Camp.

At my Stanford lab, the Persuasive Technology Lab, we focus on methods for creating habits, showing what causes behavior, automating behavior change, and persuading people via mobile phones. Over the years, improving health has become a theme. This includes my work in directing a series of conferences at Stanford on Mobile Health.

See his video on psychology of persuasion
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"Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, a cultural curator and curious mind at large, who also writes for Wired UK, The Atlantic and Design Observer, among others. She gets occasional help from a handful of talented contributors.

Brain Pickings is a human-powered discovery engine for interestingness, culling and curating cross-disciplinary curiosity-quenchers, and separating the signal from the noise to bring you things you didn’t know you were interested in until you are.

Because creativity, after all, is a combinatorial force. It’s our ability to tap into the mental pool of resources — ideas, insights, knowledge, inspiration — that we’ve accumulated over the years just by being present and alive and awake to the world, and to combine them in extraordinary new ways. In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these ideas and build new ideas — like LEGOs. The more of these building blocks we have, and the more diverse their shapes and colors, the more interesting our creations will become.

Brain Pickings is your LEGO treasure chest, full of pieces across art, design, science, technology, philosophy, history, politics, psychology, sociology, ecology, anthropology, you-name-itology. Pieces that enrich your mental pool of resources and empower you to combine them into original concepts that are stronger, smarter, richer, deeper and more impactful — a modest, curiosity-driven exercise in vision- and mind-expansion. Please enjoy."

"The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet's ecosystems. We aim to deeply influence the ascendance of a new generation of design-science pioneers who are leading the creation of an abundant and restorative world economy that benefits all humanity.

Our programs combine unique insight into global trends and local needs with a comprehensive approach to design. We encourage participants to conceive and apply transformative strategies based on a crucial synthesis of whole systems thinking, Nature's fundamental principles, and an ethically driven worldview.

By facilitating convergence across the disciplines of art, science, design and technology, our work extends the profoundly relevant legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller. In this way, we strive to catalyze the collective intelligence required to fully address the unprecedented challenges before us."

"Who I am

I was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario and lived there for the first 18 years of my life, with the exception of three years spent in the United Kingdom. On my father’s side, my ancestry is upper and middle class Irish and Scottish and on my mother’s side farming and working class Irish, Manx and Ojibway. This particular mix of histories and legacies has inspired me and allowed me to be comfortable in a variety of settings and in the spaces in between diverse people and groups. One of my traditional teachers, Paul Mishcogaboway Bourgeois, once called me “a living treaty” and the phrase still sticks decades later.

When I was 18 years old I moved to Peterborough, Ontario where I pursued a degree in Native Studies and Native Management at Trent University. While I was there I worked in the Native Management and Economic Development Program as a researcher and writer. I developed a set of two dozen teaching cases, and completed an honours thesis that looked at new models for studying organizational culture in Aboriginal organizations. My primary teachers while I was at Trent were David Newhouse and Marlene Brant-Castellano.

Living in Peterborough was a seminal period in my life, and I began writing and performing music while I was there. I played in a variety of musical endeavours, wrote a soundtrack for “Glass Walls”, a play by Stephen Couchman about homelessness and composed a series of pieces for a performance poetry piece called “Rumours of Detah” by Louis Fagan. Also in Peterborough, my writing blossomed as well, and I served in a number of editorial capacities with Arthur, Trent University’s student newspaper. I wrote concert reviews for two years for the Peterbourough Examiner from 1989 to 1991.

In 1991 I moved to Ottawa Ontario and began working as a policy analyst with the National Association of Friendship Centres, a national Aboriginal organization. It was here that I first became interested in working with groups. As a policy analyst, my job was to respond to federal government discussion papers and help represent our membership’s interests in government policy development. I gradually learned that it made more sense – and resulted in more influential work – for me to collect stories from our members and our people to share with government rather than providing conceptual responses to federal ideas. I started working with groups to develop national programs including the National Aboriginal Head Start Program and the Community Safety and Crime Prevention Program as well as strengthening and devolving the Aboriginal Friendship Centre program to our organization’s membership.

In 1994 along with my partner Caitlin Frost, I moved to Vancouver and continued working with the Friendship Centre movement through the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres. From 1994 to the end of 1995 I served as a negotiator for that organization in an off-reserve self-government framework agreement process.

When that was completed I took the dive into working with the federal government and spent three years as a Public Information and Consultation Advisor for the Federal Treaty Negotiation Office. My job was to consult with non-Aboriginal people and organizations who were affected or interested in the BC Treaty Process. This job gave me tremendous experience in facilitating in complex, diverse and highly emotional environments and it exposed me to a side of British Columbia that I never would have discovered otherwise. I worked closely with ranchers, loggers, corporate executives, local government representatives, environmentalists and regular citizens who were curious, and in some cases, fearful of the change happening in their communities.

As a member of the Aboriginal community however, I was not keen to stay in government for the rest of my working life, and so I left in 1999 and began my consulting practice focusing on bringing high quality facilitation skills to the Aboriginal community and others. By this time I was an experienced practitioner of Open Space Technology and very involved with that particular community of practice. I have designed and co-hosted dozens of Open Space Technology trainings since 1999 with Birgitt Williams, Michael Herman, David Stevenson, Wendy Farmer O’Neill, Tenneson Woolf and others and I have led over 120 Open Space Technology meetings in all kinds of settings. Many of my publications have been about Open Space, as well, including a book on the Tao of Holding Space and a co-edited collection of conversations with Michael Herman called “Open Space Technology: A User’s NON-Guide.” In 2001, with Laurel Doersam, I co-hosted the ninth annual international Open Space on Open Space conference in Vancouver.

In 2001 I moved with my family to Bowen Island, BC, near Vancouver and continued to operate from there. My facilitation practice and client list continued to grow and I became interested in the family of facilitation and leadership tools that were similar to Open Space. This led my into the Art of Hosting community of practice following a meeting with and an invitation from Toke Moeller in 2003. That association has led me into years of wonderful work teaching, learning and working with friends and colleagues across North America and Europe. I am deeply involved in this community of practice, co-hosting a half dozen or more Art of Hosting workshops a year and using these patterns, practices and methodologies in the work I continue to do with communities, businesses and organizations.

In this time period my work has been varied in scope and scale. I have worked everything from single two hour meetings to large conferences and long term systemic shifts. My work has continued to focus on Aboriginal communities and I have a conscious practice of bringing wisdom from that world to my work with non-Aboriginal organizations and communities and vice versa. I am a strong believer in connecting people and groups who are doing similar work and increasing the capacity for organizations and communities to engage in their own change initiatives. In this respect, combining the teaching and learning work I do with the organizational consulting has resulted in sustainable results on large scales and over time with several organizations. From a practice of facilitating groups my work now encompasses organizational learning, leadership support, community development and systemic change. I have learned much over the years.

In 2007 my life and business partner Caitlin Frost and I and our children Aine and Finn began Harvest Moon Consultants, Ltd. Harvest Moon combines the facilitation and coaching capacities of Caitlin and I to provide a full scale coaching and facilitating offering to organizations and leaders. This new chapter in our lives continues the story of our work and life together and invites our children into our business as well.

My work and life are deeply integrated, and clients are often exposed to various aspects of my “non-professional” life, including martial arts, juggling, rock balancing, poetry and music. These artistic activities keep my practice ground in the arts, and inspire me to continue living my life as a work of art, constantly revised and changed and improved for the benefit of all who come in contact with it."

"I am a process artist, a teacher and a facilitator of social technologies for face to face conversation in the service of emergence. My business is supporting invitation: the invitation to collaborate, to organize, to find one another and make a difference in our communities, organizations and lives.

You can explore my work here:

Open Space Technology Resources
Facilitation Resources
Parking Lot: the weblog

In a changing and complex world, there are no answers, there is no certainty. Leadership and questions are everywhere. We are called to be in active engagement with the world around us, to make sense of things we are seeing and to act on our visions and ideas for the good and benefit of all.

The fundamental human capacities of this era are among the most ancient: invitation and conversation. When we invite people to work with us, whoever shows up are the right people. When we live a life of invitation, our work becomes about making connections to make things happen. And once we have a group of people acting on an invitation, deep and meaningful conversation becomes the way we collaborate sustainably together to co-create the world we want.

I work with organizations seeking to improve their work, communities seeking to improve their future, people looking to improve their lives. I hold and care for process – the ways in which we work together – to encourage people to make their best possible contributions. I have an unflagging belief that the answers and leadership we need arise out of collaboration and conversation. By facilitating skillful dialogue, I do my best to hold space for futures to emerge."

"Our core team of strategy specialists is led by Dr. Mark Elliott who brings a wealth of leadership, expertise and experience to each project.

We’re supported by an international network of strategists, designers and developers, enabling us to deliver comprehensive and innovative end to end solutions.
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Dr. Mark Elliott

As founder of Collabforge, Dr. Mark Elliott has successfully designed and managed a range of high profile projects, working closely with clients in a highly versatile and collaborative capacity.

Prior to founding Collabforge, Mark completed a PhD investigating the underlying dynamics and mechanisms that drive and enable online mass collaboration. The objective of this work was to provide understandings that could be directly applied to the purposeful engineering of mass collaborative projects and the communities that support them.
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Matt Cooperrider

Matt is a collaboration design specialist working with organisations to guide innovation opportunities from vision to reality. He has delivered over 30 innovation projects, primarily with government agencies.

His expertise ranges from the development of strategic frameworks for innovation, to designing and facilitating collaborative workshops, to managing the development of online collaboration platforms such as the Victorian Department of Business and Innovation’s Trade Mission 2.0 site (trade.vic.gov.au), and a transportation planning wiki for the Southern California Association of Governments.
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Dale Bowerman

Since joining Collabforge in 2009, Dale has successfully managed a number of high profile community engagement projects, including the Department of Justice’s social media campaign thanking Victoria’s 85,000 emergency services volunteers.

Dale also coordinated development of innovative iPhone & Facebook applications for the CFA (Country Fire Authority) providing real-time fire warnings and location-aware information for Victorians. Most recently, Dale initiated Collabforge’s groundbreaking work with EPA Victoria to develop an organisation-wide Web 2.0 Framework"

If You spend more than two hours a week in face-to-face, phone or online meetings with people in order to get your work done, the chances are good that your work life will be significantly improved by incorporating the Collaborative Conversations approach.

The Purpose of Collaborative Conversations is to include more voices in the conversations needed to create a mutually desired future, and to make better choices as a result of the broadened inclusion - even if there are hundreds of people involved.

The Value of Collaborative Conversations is that people can:

~ Arrive at a clear idea of what is important to them regarding specific issues.

~ Explore what is possible based on the constraints they are operating under.

~ Determine and coordinate effective actions that produce desired outcomes.

~ Critically reflect and learn in order to improve their future conversations."

"COMMON is a collaborative brand and creative community for accelerating social change. Founded in January of 2011 by Alex and Ana Bogusky, John Bielenberg and Rob Schuham, COMMON supports, connects and celebrates those designing a new era of socially-minded enterprise.

We're busy building our new website, which we hope will enable the millions of individuals passionate about building a fresh form of capitalism to connect, collaborate - and get to work.

Meanwhile, if you'd like to say hello, get involved, or talk to us about the ways we're helping emerging and existing businesses drive positive change through enterprise, please shoot us a note, find us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. We can't wait to meet you!"

"About this blog

I believe that it is only a matter of time before enterprise software consists of only four types of application: publishing, search, fulfilment and conversation. I believe that weaknesses and corruptions in our own thinking about digital rights and intellectual property rights will have the effect of slowing down or sometimes even blocking this from happening.

I believe we keep building layers of lock-in that prevent information from flowing freely, and that we have a lot to learn about the right thing to do in this respect. I believe identity and presence and authentication and permissioning are in some ways the new battlegrounds, where the freedom of information flow will be fought for, and bitterly at that.

I believe that we do live in an age of information overload, and that we have to find ways of simplifying our access to the information; of assessing the quality of the information; of having better tools to visualise the information, to enrich and improve it, of passing the information on.

I believe that Moore’s Law and Metcalfe’s Law and Gilder’s Law have created an environment where it is finally possible to demonstrate the value of information technology in simple terms rather than by complex inferences and abstract arguments.

I believe that simplicity and convenience are important, and that we have to learn to respect human time.

I believe we need to discuss these things and find ways of getting them right. And I have a fervent hope that through this blog, I can keep the conversations going and learn from them."

"About

I am an author, activist, blogger and consultant who spends a lot of time exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. I've been on this trail for more than ten years, working with a variety of international and domestic partners. Recently, I co-founded the Commons Strategy Group, a consulting project that works to promote the commons internationally. My work on the commons takes many forms -- as an author, conference organizer and frequent international speaker; as the host of an educational film, This Land Is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons; as the Croxton Lecturer at Amherst College where I taught “The Rise of the Commons” in 2010; and as an expert witness for the “design commons” in a trademark lawsuit; among other initiatives. I was Founding Editor of Onthecommons.org and a Fellow of On the Commons from 2004 to 2010. I have written ten books; the most recent three deal with the commons. My first book on the commons was Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Commons Wealth (2002), a far-ranging survey of market enclosures of shared resources, from public lands and the airwaves to creativity and knowledge. Then I extended this analysis in my 2005 book, Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture, which documents the vast expansion of copyright and trademark law over the past generation that has enclosed our cultural commons. In 2009, I published Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, which describes the rise of free software, free culture, and the movements behind open business models, open science, open educational resources and new modes of Internet-enabled citizenship. While on the trail of the commons, I have worked with American television writer/producer Norman Lear, since 1984, on a variety of non-television, public affairs projects. I am also Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, and co-founder and board member (2001-2011) of Public Knowledge, a Washington policy advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the information commons. I live in Amherst, Massachusetts, a place that knows a lot about commoning and so inspires a passionate hometown loyalty."

"About

Winner of the Media Ecology Association's first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is technology and media commentator for CNN, and has taught and lectured around the world about media, technology, culture and economics.

His new book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, a followup to his Frontline documentary, Digital Nation. His last book, an analysis of the corporate spectacle called Life Inc., was also made into a short, award-winning film.

His ten best-selling books on new media and popular culture have been translated to over thirty languages. They include Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out and Coercion, winner of the Marshall Mcluhan Award for best media book. Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy and graphic novel, Club Zero-G. He wrote a series of graphic novels called Testament, and his new graphic novel, A.D.D., was just released by Vertigo.

He has written and hosted three award-winning Frontline documentaries - The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance, and most recently, Digital Nation, about life on the virtual frontier.

His commentaries have aired on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's All Things Considered, and have appeared in publications from The New York Times to Time magazine. He wrote the first syndicated column on cyberculture for The New York Times and Guardian of London, as well as regular columns for Arthur, Discover Magazine and The Feature. He also hosted is own radio program on WFMU, The Media-Squat.

Rushkoff is finishing his PhD at Utrecht University's New Media Program. He has taught regularly for the MaybeLogic Academy, NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, The New School University, and the Esalen Institute. He also lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world.

He serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, the Board of Directors of the Media Ecology Association, The Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and as a founding member of Technorealism. He is on the Advisory Board of MeetUp.com and HyperWords . He has been awarded a Fullbright Scholarship, and Senior Fellowships by the Markle Foundation, the Center for Global Communications, and the International University of Japan. He served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News to Larry King and Bill Maher. He developed the Electronic Oracle software series for HarperCollins Interactive.

Rushkoff is on the board of several new media non-profits and companies, and regularly consults on new media arts and ethics to museums, governments, synagogues, churches, universities, and even Fortune 500 companies that are willing to listen to reason.

Rushkoff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, received an MFA in Directing from California Institute of the Arts, a post-graduate fellowship (MFA) from The American Film Institute, and a Director's Grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He's finishing his dissertation on media literacy and gaming for University Utrecht. He has worked as a certified stage fight choreographer, an SAT tutor, and as keyboardist for the industrial band PsychicTV."

""We are free to share code and we code to share freedom"

Ideas and creations to promote horizontal access to education, technology and media."