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Extreme Futurist Fest Banners

By Rachel Haywire | Published: October 20, 2011
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Many of you may have heard of the Extreme Futurist Festival by now. Please use these banners I designed to link back to my new festival on your websites. The evolution is about to begin.

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Digital Anthropology: Is Web 2.0 an Idiocracy?

By Rachel Haywire | Published: June 30, 2011
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If you are like me you might come from a generation that was raised online before the boom of social networking sites. The Internet was once a secret room that only the freaks could experience. We were trolling before it was called trolling and we didn’t do it for mob sport but intellectual exercise. My first exposure to the Internet was through a free text-based service where you could view alt.newsgroups and send email through a program called Pine. There was no world wide Internet that I could see from miles away.

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How Facebook Deleted My Ass

By Rachel Haywire | Published: March 10, 2011
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It was a quiet night at our new place. The drama was nil to zero. Or maybe it was high with the relocation and decision to quit Experiment Haywire. One may never remember. Yet I still had my Facebook network didn’t I? 5000 friends to talk to from all over the world. Every post I made sparked debate among the freaks among the freaks. I’d met over 1000 of these beautiful people in real life. I was the connection to The Disconnected. I was the Queen of Antisocial Media! I worked pretty damn hard for my empire of dirt. I was Rachel Haywire. Or was I?

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The Transhuman Separatist Manifesto

By Rachel Haywire | Published: February 21, 2011
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[Reprinting the manifesto on my website for those of you who missed it on Humanity+]

We are a new species. We are not superior. We are a different step in the evolution of thought.

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Human Data: Social Engineering in the Digital Age

By Rachel Haywire | Published: January 3, 2011
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I missed the deadline to submit my SXSW panel but here it is for anyone who may have been curious. I had some amazing panelists who were interested too. I hate being a flake. Next year maybe?

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