FutureBook Hackers at work: Did we tell them enough?

As the mists rise off the beanbags here at the Roberts Building on the campus of University College London, the FutureBook Hack has about 19 hacker-participants at work. FutureBook-pink blankets still cover some shoulders. The smell of breakfast being set up is encouraging. It’s early morning. More teammates will join these. The message goes out:… Read More

FutureBook Hack's invocation: The Rev. Matthew Cashmore

 Blackwell’s digital director Matthew Cashmore is going to make some Anglican parish a very fine priest. “I get criticised,” he told the #FutureBookHack’s gathered assembly Saturday morning, “every time I introduce a hack day and tell people, ‘You can change the world with what you do this weekend.” Seated at tables and on beanbags, standing… Read More