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Causal Islands Berlin 2024

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Causal Islands is a conference about the future of computing and a home for new perspectives ranging from deeply technical insights to sharp socio-political analysis. We will explore themes including malleable and local-first software, programming systems, new hardware and computer interfaces, p2p protocols, and challenging ideas about what software is, how it's produced, and how it could be different. You can expect great people attending and presenting on a range of cutting edge topics, good opportunities for hallway and after hours connections, and perhaps even some adjacent workshops and activities in smaller spaces around Berlin. Andrés Cuervo is an artist, programmer, and HCI researcher building a new kind of tangible programming environment at Folk Computer. Lu creates slightly-surreal creative-coding projects under the Todepond moniker. They are one of the hosts of the Future of Coding podcast, a coder at tldraw, and a researcher-in-residence at Ink and Switch. Marek is a compu

Computers were designed and invented for groups (The Alto at the PARC were linked by an ethernet local network, the NLS was an on-line collaborative system, etc). As micro-computers got out of the lab and onto the desks of people they became tools for individuals and lost most of their collaborative aspects. While somewhat restored by the web, collaboration is not core to the computing experience. How can we design computers for groups? Approaching programming through the lens of psychology, we can view it as a complex problem-solving task. Successfully mastering such an activity means decompo

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