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Ben Hammersley is a British journalist, broadcaster, and photographer, currently based between Florence, Italy, and London, England. Here is his biography on wikipedia.

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DLD Conference in Munich

January 20th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
I’m sat in the DLD Conference in Munich. It’s an invite only thing for the great, good, and the unclassifiable, in media, technology and art and the like. No doubt there are many here who will be live blogging: I won’t, but I will point to the stuff later. Yet, already I’m a bit frustrated: everyone here is busy freaking out about the effects of the Internet. Why do all of these things consist mostly of old people with panicky looks? Can’t we get over the future shock and get on with building and steering the future itself?

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  1. Pingback by It’s time to drop the grade-school talk about online social networks on 21 January 2008:

    [...] Hammersley today spoke up to remind us that everyone is still “busy freaking out about the effects of the Internet” at the DLD conference — “Europe’s conference for the 21st [...]

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