What drives technological innovation? Moreover, what exactly is it and how can we understand it in the context of our current political discourse?
Phrases like "open source," "peer-to-peer," and "decentralized" were recently mere buzzwords, subject to selective definition by experts and insiders. However, in the past decade, these phrases have become the stuff of everyday banter, with the principles they embody entering the mainstream of philosophy and politics.
This lingual movement suggests that at least part of the driving forces of technological innovation are the principles of liberty, self-determination, and voluntary collaboration.
This panel will explore:
*specific tactics of innovators and their roots in liberty activism
*the nature of technological innovation as a voluntary community
*the extent to which "liberty" and "technology" describe emergence of the same phenomena in the human species
