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In an interview with Geert Lovink and Andreas Broeckmann for the Transmediale in Berlin in 2001, David Garcia clearly recalls how certain participants did not agree with this approach "This is what Gregg Bordowitz said to us more than a decade ago: "The way the conference is organised is based on a utopian notion of a free exchange of information, instituted through technology; a use of technology that is unquestioned, uncriticised, unproblematised; the notion that a universal space can be established through phone links, faxes and modems. If there is one thing that is established through the kind of work we do is that there have never been such things as universal categories, principles or experiences. In future I would like to see conferences which reflected the interest of the people with the most at stake, in which there was some acceptance of difference that isn't evened out or erased through some notion of free exchange through some neutral means that remain unquestioned. To me this destroys community and collectivity." (Broeckman, Garcia & Lovink, 2001).