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Essays Writings

How Can We Be Bored When We Have Google?

An essay for Aeon magazine on information, boredom and how the survivors of the sixties counterculture shaped the story of the internet.

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Essays Writings

Commoning in the City

Two days of conversations about ‘the commons’ on an island in the heart of Stockholm set me thinking about what it means to reclaim ‘subsistence’ in the 21st century.

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Talks

A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise

A talk on the future of education at Dalarna University, Sweden in March 2013.

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Writings

In the Future, Everyone Will Be Powerful for 15 Minutes

Published in Despatches From the Invisible Revolution (PediaPress).  1. Rioters smash the windows of banks, the drum beats towards war with Iran, protests fuelled by social media take over the streets…

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Newsletters

How I Became a Cyber-Womble

This is James Wallbank’s story of founding Access Space, based on an interview I did with him for the ‘Steel City’ special issue of PICK ME UP zine, 28 October 2005 James…