2005-11-05
Gnomedex and Woodstock
In a recent mailing list post about planning for Gnomedex 2006, J.D. Lasica exclaimed:
So if Gnomedex is the Woodstock of our times, does this imply any or all of the following?
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
History repeats itself.
"Four-day conference?! What is this, Woodstock?"My gut reaction and reply was:
Yes, this is our Woodstock. Announcer: "Don't upload big files." = Announcer: "Don't take the brown acid."Upon digging a bit deeper, by Googling on "brown acid Woodstock" I found this page talking about the "new sense of community" seen demonstrated at Woodstock. It sounds very similar to what's going on at and around Gnomedex.
So if Gnomedex is the Woodstock of our times, does this imply any or all of the following?
- the hippie movement -- the open source movement
- drugs (medical and recreational) -- the Internet
- psychedelic drugs -- file sharing
- LSD -- Napster
- Timothy Leary -- Shawn Fanning
- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Lawrence Lessig
- Civil Rights movement -- IP Reform movement
- "The Man" -- "Old Media"
- the Vietnam War -- the War in Iraq
- G. Gordon Liddy -- "Scooter" Libby
- Richard Nixon -- George W. Bush
- Jimmy Carter -- ???
- ??? -- Chris Pirillo
- ??? -- Adam Curry
- ??? -- Dave Winer
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
History repeats itself.
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