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Category: LSx

  • Temples For Machine Gods

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    Perhaps its not a good thing for conference programmers to reveal their favourite speakers and sessions, but James Bridle's Where The Robots Work was my personal highlight from our programme at FutureEverything 2011. James' keynote explored how cities were reorienting themselves around our emerging information infrastructure, notably how the built environment was now as much…

  • Startup Fictions & The Link Age {1995-2010}

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    After producing four editions of BarCamp Leeds between 2007 and 2010, I figured I should finally speak at one of my own events! I'd originally planned to host a screening of August as part of the LSx2010 fringe. A little known 2008 movie starring Josh Hartnett, that chronicles the ambitions of a pair of dotcom entrepreneurs. I couldn't clear the rights in time, so…