“demonstration projects” can be seen everywhere from23 solar power installations on rural Indian reservations (Black Rock Solar) to experimental community spaces in blighted metropolitan areas (The Generator, in Reno, Nevada) to smartphone apps (including Firechat, which was designed as a peer-to-peer communication network at Burning Man, but then played a critical role in protest movements in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Russia). And because Burners vigorously defend an open-source, noncommercial approach, their efforts are easy to share and hard to censor. Burning Man “regional burns” now occur in
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