By Michelle Thorne

Firstly, I’m a remix kid. I come from the generation of sampling. So the talk you’re going to hear is a remix of arguments made by lots of great and interesting people, notably Aristotle, the Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, Lawrence Lessig, Sean Bonner, Fight Club, Bruce Sterling, and the authors of a book that helped bring these ideas together, Collaborative Consumption. 

By Quinn Norton Every day is stranger than the last one. Each of us has a point where we fall short, where we can't go on at this mad pace. We ride the wave as long as we can until we start to drown in time and change, and nothing makes sense anymore. And then we fight back from that i...

by Bruce Sterling People in Belgrade sometimes wonder why I'm often in Belgrade, yet I'm never there when it makes any sense, or when anyone expects to see me there.  Well, I pursue a modern "multilocative" lifestyle.  I have three cities and three lives with...

 I like them big, I like them dirty, I like them loud, and I DON'T like them "smart." My cities. That' s why I like Belgrade, Cairo, Los Angeles, Rome…  They have the streets smarts that smart, technocratic cities lack.   Utopian visions of "smart...

To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart - Bruce Springsteen “No, I don't claim to know anything about such things, and I'm not laying down the law. But I feel it. I have been visited, or spoken to, 'Ramer said gravely. 'Then, I think, the meaning was direct, i...

The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde.He is part of a movement challenging powerful nations and commanding corporations in an epic, yet virtually concealed, struggle to maintain an open and decentralized Internet.

Video conference with Marcell Mars MODERATOR: Is anyone here who didn’t hear about 4chan? [no one raises their hands] Fuck yeah! So, my introduction is less than a minute...less than ten seconds because I just finished the introduction. [applause] So, Moot, I never dreamed to be a TV ...

   Talk by Smári McCarthy at Share Belgrade 2012 Hello! Oh, wait, I ate too much ice-cream. I was asked to come and talk to you about the democratization movement in Malta. I found that a bit strange, I normally talk about very different stuff, kind of, transparency a...

Talk by Jacob Appelbaum Wow! That's really great. Hi! So, thanks for having me here, although I can't see any of you at all. I'm here today to talk about Tor, and I want to talk a little bit about anonymity in general, and circumvention, as well as Internet filtering, or blo...

Panel with Vuk Cosic, Bruce Sterling, Rob van Kranenbrug , Khannea Suntzu, & Aubrey de Grey from Share Conference Belgrade 2012   MODERATOR: Hi. Hello Everybody, nice to be here. My name is Vuk and I’m an archaeologist. which is more than enough qualifications for me...

Transcript of Rob Van Kranenbrug talk at Share Belgrade 2012.

Transcript of George Hotz talk at Share Belgrade 2012   Hey, My name is George Hotz, I play the character geohot on the internet. And I’ve 3 stories to tell you today. I never know how technical to make these talks, so if you have any technical questions ask them in Q&A. How...

By Francis Pisani     Who hasn’t dreamed of TED conferences for the poor, for activists, for people who want to change the world but don’t have the means to travel to Long Beach in California, US, or the connections needed to participate in global TEDx conferen...

  12 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Serbians filled the streets of Belgrade, blocking the entire city in protest of Slobodan Milošević’s regime. At the time such a widespread protest had seemed unimaginable. Before the uprising, the mood in the country was melancholic...

  A few years ago, in a souk in old Damascus, you could find some of the strangest lingerie on earth: thong panties made out of psychedelic flowers that blinked with multi-colored lights, bras that said “I love you” when you pushed a well-concealed button, and flimsy underw...