How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today

By Damien Newton
Jan 26, 2009

CHRIS CARLSSON GIVES A TALK ON:

Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot
Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today

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