Florianopolis Keynote: “Trusting Amateurs with the Future”

Which is the oldest human record? In his keynote presentation to the National Symposium of Brazilian Cyberculture, Jon Ippolito argues it is lurking in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil is a country on the move, with a vibrant culture that John Perry Barlow claims has leapfrogged the industrial revolution and gone straight to an information economy. …