Geert Lovink talks about developments in the internet, associated utopias and their ironic, political and subversive implications. Geert Lovink is considered one of the most brilliant media theorists of our time. Ever since they emerged, Geert Lovink has been attempting to monitor and help shape the utopias that were to guide the development of the internet – as an activist, organiser of media festivals and, finally, as a scholar.