OSCon Keynotes 2

    Freeman Dyson, George Dyson.  (Esther Dyson missing)
    
    Current interest in biotech.  Analogies betwen OSS and biotech.
    
    Domestication of biotech - into the home like personal computers.
    
    Five questions.  Is it possble to inhibit this development?  Is it desireable to do so?  If you do want to control, how do you do so? (&c)
    
    Q to George Dyson about moving from drop out to Institute for Adv Studies (with a sidetrip into kayak building).  Problem of educational system making a distinction between hand work and mind work, when the two allow the other to exist.
    
    TimO: Increasing movement in geek community to make things, not just computers.
    
    GD: Being able to take things apart promoting learning.
    
    Nuclear Power
    
    Adaptive optics, but impact of this and defense.  because of classifcation, other players took lead. Secrecy hiding failure rather than success.
    
    Discoverers vs Explainers.

Bdal Garbee - Beyond Doing Business - The continuing importance of community development

Internet enablement of novel forms of community (outside of mere physical or governmental commonality)