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My takeaways from Dave Olson’s sxsw panel:

The internet allows us to ensure a redundancy of information that the physical world can never have. We tear down our modern-day pyramids, but our blogs are duplicated and recorded and archived. We are passing our every word down to future generations. What are we passing down? How much intent and integrity and heart do we put into our digital productions?

Our past heroes have put their entire lives into their work. Has anyone done that online? Is there a digital Thoreau? Will we discover a currently neglected philosophy blogger in a hundred years and suddenly realize that we ignored someone whose ideas would come to change the world?

Embark on personal archeology. What projects have you completed in the past that have no digital presence? Put them online. Share them. Pass them on to your peers and future generations. As a world, we will rarely discover our geniuses unless they share their work with the world.

Posted by Sarah Davies, filed under SxSW, philosophy of technology, technology. Date: March 13, 2009, 2:05 pm | View Comments

  • You distill down to some critical questions which i aim to explore in the coming years. Where is the art being created? Does it matter? now that the gatekeepers are disarmed, do we know what we like and why it's "important"?

    Wish we coulda hung out more in Austin but hopefully i can come spiel my message of truth, creation and rebellion in Seattle one of these days.
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