June is always a time that’s slightly crazed for me (in a good way): it’s the month when I celebrate both my birthday and my wedding anniversary; plus it’s solstice time, when the days are longest and (for light-seeking souls like me) spirits highest. It’s also the period, in the trough between Memorial Day and the start of high vacation season, when lots of events get planned. Here’s some that are on my horizon:
This Sunday I’m heading off to the Wall Street Journal’s “D” Conference, run by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg — featuring, among others, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Last year, I understand they shared a stage (I wasn’t there to confirm the executive convergence). We’ll see if that tradition continues.
Next Friday, the same Long Now Foundation series that hosted Brian Eno’s amazing talk last fall will present Bruce Sterling, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. If you’ve ever heard Sterling’s seemingly free-associational — but really, I’m convinced, carefully choreographed — riffing, you know it’s a treat. The topic? “The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole.”
Last year, the Digital Storytelling Festival in Sedona was a blast. I can’t make it to this year’s event — June 10-12, in Sedona once more — but it promises to be even better, with J.D. Lasica talking about his “DarkNet” project and lots of other folks presenting their work.
Finally, Supernova returns to the Bay Area June 24-25. A year and a half ago, Kevin Werbach’s first conference served as a great intro to the issues around Wi-Fi, Web services, and other grassroots-driven, geek-centered technologies whose adoption has begun to fuel a new wave of Silicon Valley buzz. It’ll be interesting to see where Werbach takes these subjects now that it has begun to move from the edge to the mainstream.
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