I am happy to bring you some impressions from Reboot10 in Kopenhagen, starting tomorrow. It’s my 3rd time at Reboot and I always took a lot of inspiration and ideas with me. I am looking forward to meet many friends and have a lot of interesting conversations. This years topic is “free” in every possible context - Good job done by Thomas!

THE EXPLORATION OF “FREE”
reboot10 is an exploration of “free”. “free” as in free information, free individuals, free societies, free markets, free products and services, free ideas, free minds, free to move, free software, free taxonomies, free culture, free knowledge, free to find our own way, free tools, free platforms, free minds - you continue the list…

Shifting from a world of pre-definitions, fixed structures, high costs to participate and living in the status quo - to a world of being free to determine, free to create, free flow, free to see things emerge.
“free” saturates what’s happening in a world of digital decentralization - and the current fascination of “free” in the economic sense is a great validation of this deeper change.
But “free” is also an ambiguous term, always comes at an extra cost “there’s no such things as a free lunch”, is always in a constant state of flux “informations wants to be free, informations wants to be expensive” and is rather hard thing to get your head around.

So “free” is all around us and shaping us - perhaps it was time to explore it?

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Free makes me think about free beer as well as about freedom and feeling free to do whatever I want to do. As an entrepreneur I feel many times not free at all but like a slave by his own choice. So many things to think about and reboot my mind …

Dieter Rappold, blogging at Sierralog.com and knallgrau.at