WHY DO GEEKS GO
CAMPING?
FOO &
other brushes with nature
Nature and Cyberspace: Stories, Memes and Metaphors
(forthcoming 2012)
Professor Sue Thomas
De Montfort University
FutureEverything
Manchester 2011
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Early Geek
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TechnomadsChris Dunphy & Cherie Ve Ard
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Jon Postel (1943-1998)God of the Internet (The Economist)
Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains are ever in sight, charming and glorifying every landscape.
John Muir,The Mountains of California,1894
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John Muir & President Roosevelt 1904
“Creative truancy in the wild heart of the New World”
Frederick Turner
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Creative truancy: FOO Camp 2003
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Google OpenSocial 2007
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Surfing on the internet
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Koa wood for typing and surfing
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Zillions of tiny rivers
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Howard Rheingold’s Outside Office
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SO WHY DO GEEKS GO
CAMPING?
•Balancing energies
•Contemplation and the sublime
•Creative truancy