LinuxCon Europe + CloudOpen Europe

We conduct an ever greater part of our lives through computers in their various shapes. We work on Free Software not only because it's great technology. It's much more than that: A community, and a tool to empower each one of us. Yet power flows both ways, and computers also empower governments and corporations, whose interests may not be aligned with our own. Where does that leave us? What opportunities do the machines in our lives create, and how do their limitations shape the future? In this session, we will discuss the complex links between technology and political power. Are we merely serfs of one digital overlord or another? Or are we citizens of a connected world? What rules will we create for our shared future?