Digital Artisans of Europe Unite!
Ενα από τα πρώτα κείμενα που ανέβηκαν σε αυτό το Blog, πριν από πολλά χρόνια, σε επανάληψη: THE DIGITAL ARTISANS MANIFESTO BY RICHARD BARBROOK AND PIT SCHULTZ European Digital Artisans Network 1st May 1997 Making The Future 1. We are the digital artisans. We celebrate the Promethean power of our labour and imagination to shape the virtual world. By hacking, coding, designing and mixing, we build the wired future through our own efforts and inventiveness. 2. We are not the passive victims of uncontrollable market forces and technological changes. Without our daily work, there would be no goods or services to trade. Without our animating presence, information technologies would just be inert metal, plastic and silicon. Nothing can happen inside cyberspace without our creative labour. We are the only subjects of history. 3. The emergence of the Net signifies neither the final triumph of economic alienation nor the replacement of humanity by machines. On the contrary, the
