It's time to realize the greater potential of our peer-to-peer networks to address the social, political, economic and evolutionary goals that its builders imagined. The Contact Summit, conceived and facilitated by Douglas Rushkoff, is a participatory festival for ideas and action, with three main parts.

Join Howard Rheingold and other noted educators in creating a world-class resource for teaching critical thinking and Internet literacies.

“From businesses we’ve never heard of, to countries we’ve never visited, to infants who’ve had the random misfortune to be born into a family that’s on TV – it’s all grist for obvious jokes and shortsighted commentary that, for at least a few minutes, helps both the maker and the consumer feel a little less bored, a little less vulnerable, and a little less disconnected. For a minute, anyway, it makes us feel more alive. Does me, anyway.”