Next Thursday in the just recreated Willem de Zwijger pakhuis in Amsterdam a free conference that handles about how we are living in a mediated society.

Media aren’t longer part of our surroundings, they are our surrounding. How should we deal with it, is the only solution to trust noting and be skeptical about everything, or is there also a more positive solution of dealing with al this media.

The Dutch ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Council for Culture have organized this congress to discuss about the roll of the government and society at large to deal with it.

Keynote speaker is Lawrence Lessig, writer of the book Free Culture. He will speak about how society would be better off with the end of copyrights. A point that was also mentioned some times at the Picnic conference last month.

More info on Upcomming.org (in Dutch)