and of course baritunde thurston who i said was a little fun-timidating, one of the most fun guys around but you really understand this world. for people who are watching this, before you change your channel because you don t know what south by southwest is or you don t care, why do we care that we re here? we used to think of the internet as a separate space, as a different place. as a culture, distinct from the rest of the world. it s too big for that now. the internet is not some other thing. it s in all of us. and so this festival, which began as geek culture, that s now mass culture. so to understand the future that we re charting, these tools we re making affect all of us. how we learn, how we spend money, how we find our mates, how we do our politics. so with the big picture of the whole world now, not something you can isolate as separate from the rest of us. that s a good point you make. if we can do our politics the way people make deals about technology and com
what you may not have heard yet is it s also probably the world s biggest interactive digitalfest cal. foursquare got its kickoff a few years ago. twitter really exploded here at south by southwest. cnn has a presence here every year. i m here with two guys when i really, really like. i tweeted that i ve got a man crush on mario armstrong. i think i said it was a tech man crush. and of course baritunde thurston who i said was a little intimidating, one of the most fun guys around but you really understand this world. for people who are watching this, before you change your channel because you don t know what south by southwest is or you don t care, why do we care that we re here? we used to think of the internet as a separate space, as a different place. as a culture, distinct from the rest of the world. it s too big for that now. the internet is not some other thing. it s in all of us. and so this festival, which began as geek culture, that s now mass culture. so to unders