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SXSW Interactive Recap

Written by  //  March 12, 2012  //  Austin, Design  //  No comments

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There’s so much SXSW happening right now, and tomorrow marks the end of this year’s banquet of activities for SXSW Interactive, which includes prominent tech thinkers: Baratunde Thurston, Amber Case, Ray Kurzweil, and Jennifer Pahlka—all of whom were keynote speakers in 2012. Below, I’ve shared talks by these thinkers, as a sort of recap of the technological future, and what we should have learned: hashtags are important, we are cyborgs, the singularity is our future, and our new government will grow with our hands.

Baratunde Thurston

Amber Case

Ray Kurzweil

Jennifer Pahlka

Other events of interest from now until tomorrow are: Al Gore interviews Napster founder, Sean Parker. The talk begins at 5 PM (CST), and can be live-streamed here: http://sxsw.com/node/10824.

“Drink Up / Tweet Up” tonight, 6 PM, at Palm Park. More info here: http://sxsw.com/node/10814.

Tomorrow, various Start Up Village activities, as well as panel discussions, of course, like: Facebook Credits: Not Just for Virtual Goods; and Epic Battle: Creativity vs. Discipline in Social.

Written by  //  March 12, 2012  //  Austin, Design  //  No comments

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Katy Crocker graduated from the College of Santa Fe with a degree in art history and was the director of ARTWORK International until spring 2010, when she moved to Austin, Texas. From there, she focuses on contemporary art and cultural history. In addition to writing for AdobeAirstream, she regularly contributes to Proxart Magazine, Los Angeles.

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