Conference retrospect: Reboot 7.0 & Open Tech '05

A pretty good range of podcasts from Reboot 7.0 is now up: see here and here. (I missed the Doug Englebart film and linkup, but Ross blogged about it here and the film is available on the web. There are useful comments on the presentations here.)

Reboot was far and away the best conference experience I have known and has so far resisted my attempts to write it up: too much to say, with each line of thought multiplying into several new ones as idea leads on to idea. So I'll just have to let Reboot and Open Tech do their work and come into what I blog, as I go and bit by bit — which shouldn't be hard as so much in both is continually under discussion on the web right now.

The sight of the main hall at Reboot is still worth gawping at. It was a busy two days+ that let me meet a range of exciting, stimulating people and left me in no doubt that a new way of doing (so many apparently different) things is upon us. Like Nicole (Cruel to be Kind), I don't want the Reboot spirit to slip through my fingers. I can't think of anything I've come across that approaches the inter-disciplinary, collaborative excitement of the best of Reboot and Open Tech.