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Niels Boeing studied physics in Aachen and Berlin. Dabbling in scientific theory and technical philosphy awoke an interest to not only generally explain new technology, but to critically categorize it. He has been working as a science journalist since 1997. He was an editor at the magazine "Die Woche" in Hamburg, among others. He is a freelance author and has been writing papers on issues like nanotechnology, internet, climate change, rapid manufacturing…
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Dean Puckett is a filmmaker and activist based in London. Aside from producing music videos he focuses mainly on documentary films and with his 2008 offer "The Elefant in the Room" has already presented an impressive debut. In 2010 he documented life in „Kew Bridge Eco Village“, a sustainable community in the heart of London, and in "Democracy Village" in front of the doors of the London Parliament. 2011 saw the completion of his second documentary…
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Christian Siefkes studied computer science and philosophy. He graduated at the Free University of Berlin in the Department for Computer Science in 2007. He currently lives in Berlin and works as a freelance software developer and author. On keimform.de, he writes about the emancipatory potential of free software and other forms of commons-based peer production. He also runs the website siefkes.net. His book "From Exchange to Contributions: Generalizing…
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Karen Kastenhofer is trained in biology, human ecology and social studies of science. She worked at the Institut für interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung in Vienna from 1999 to 2003 and at Wissenschaftszentrum Umwelt (University of Augsburg, Germany) from 2005 to 2007. Since 2007, she has been working at the Institute for Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her major areas of interest are epistemic cultures within the…
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Mark Stevenson’s early career saw him mixing two jobs; one as an expert in both prime number cryptography and computer aided systems engineering (writing several very heavy, expensive books on these subjects as part of his tenure at an industry think-tank), the other fronting a pop band, enjoying brief notoriety in Japan, France and much to his surprise, Chile. The videos still embarrass him. Today he combines two other (more related) careers – one…
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