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+#infos
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+auth-name       : holger krekel
+tag             : decentralization, edges, questions
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+advance costs   : N
+need room       : Y   
+Location        : Freiburg, Germany
+Can host ppl    : na
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+
+# Secession from the broadcast
+
+It's time to travel to the edges because this is where the interesting stuff
+happens.  "What is popular" is rarely a question that helps finding edges.
+In this talk round i'll recap what i learned in 15 months of my
+re-juvenated and re-energized quest into decentralization and what it
+means.  
+
+For one, I'd like to present a question from Gene Youngblood's
+"Secession from the broadcast" lecture [1]: "how can we create on the
+same scale as we can destroy?".  Gene suggests we need to move away from
+the "Audience nation" by becoming "political actors" instead of
+"interested spectators of action".  
+
+Second, I highlight a thought from Adam Ierymenko [2]:  If full
+decentralization is technically too hard currently, can we construct and
+make use of a **Blind Idiot God** (BIG) instance which co-ordinates some
+communication but can not abuse it or even understand what's going on
+precisely?  
+
+Lastly, how can we create sustained systems and products if we
+don't want to imitate the centralized web service cash cow model?
+As Laura Kolbag [3] pointed out recently in Nuernberg, paying
+for software might not be so bad if the "free to use" models 
+mean surveillance and centralized control. And she suggests
+that design and useability should drive Open Source software 
+instead of features and options.
+
+The edges are where we encounter the others, those who are somehow 
+not like us.  It's a place where i easily run into fears.  At the edges
+there is no central authority suggesting what to think or do next.  The
+number of people at the edges is by definition lower than in the center.
+But it's where things can happen.  Secession from the broadcast.
+
+[1] http://www.secessionfromthebroadcast.org/2013/10/29/secession-broadcast-internet-crisis-social-control/
+[2] http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/
+[3] https://border-none.net/2014/scene-setters#c81
+