[Ecommerce] Plug for F2C: Freedom to Connect March 5&6

[Manon Ress]

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This is an interesting gathering in a cool venue with great speakers
& audience (with a great musician as a bonus).  I heard the "special
price" is changing today or tomorrow.
See you there.
manon

From: "David S. Isenberg" <isen@isen.com>
Subject: Announcing F2C: Freedom to Connect


Announcing F2C: Freedom to Connect,
March 5 & 6, Washington, DC
http://freedom-to-connect.net

F2C: Freedom to Connect is the isen.com gathering of SMART People to
discuss
the infrastructure of the Internet and all that it enables.  F2C's
theme-setting speaker this year is Yochai Benkler, whose 2006 book, _The
Wealth of Networks_, is the most important book I've read recently.
Benkler
intimates that we're underestimating the long-term impact of the
Internet.
Specifically, he says, open source software, Wikipedia and Second
Life are
signals of a future where large-scale networked cooperation becomes as
important a means of production as industry and marketplace.  At F2C,
we'll
explore this hypothesis, the evidence pro and con, the scenarios that it
suggests for a transformed future, and some other scenarios that may
obtain
if Benkler's hypothesis doesn't pan out.  And we'll attempt to discern
additional clues to our networked future from current movement in
technology, policy, business and economics.

The early list of committed speakers to F2C includes Mark Cooper, Susan
Crawford, Dan Gillmor, Mary Hodder, Reed Hundt, Jonathan Krim, Blair
Levin,
Cory Ondrejka, Gigi Sohn and David Weinberger (in addition to Benkler).
This early list is UNDER CONSTRUCTION -- more additions are imminent.

The special rate of $250, for very early birds, expires in one
week . . . a
word to the SMART.

I hope to see you at F2C: Freedom to Connect!

David I
David S. Isenberg
http://freedom-to-connect.net
http://isen.com/blog




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