An eight-day anti-Big Tech festival called The Summer of Ludd is now underway at various locations around mostly Lower Manhattan, offering an eclectic spate of events for anyone intrigued by the prospect of a better digital reality.
“The upfront pitch is pretty straightforward: It’s a week of free public and participatory programming to encourage people to get off Big Tech and into public space,” said co-organizer and indie web advocate Damian Thomas.
So far, Thomas says The Summer of Ludd –– named for a group of anti-machinery 19th-century textile workers called the Luddites –– is going even better than expected.
source - Gothamist...by Hannah Frishberg