Mission Future é um evento pra discutir tendências para o Futuro que ocorrerá na Austria, e neste ano o foco será: Open Industry and Open Innovation. De acordo com o site:

On September 8, 2008, Mission Future will bring together visionaries, innovators and creative entrepreneurs from diverse disciplines to explore and drive the impact of the sharing-economy on society and business.

Themed “We’re open: How open minds and open industries are shaping the world” and focusing on open innovation and open economy, Mission Future 2008 stands central amongst the festivities of Ars Electronica, the world’s largest celebration of digital art and media.

Espero acompanhar os principais assuntos discutidos através do twitter, como ocorreu com o Brainstormtech. Vamos ver!

Via: lupeke

I eventually left Linz at about 10am. Today went really quickly despite the atrocious weather.

In the mid morning I passed through the former concentration camp of Matthausen although I saw nothing of interest that speaks to its past. I guess it is a history that the locals are not too keen to advertise.

I spent the second half of today's 125 km ride cycling in an electric storm. I still managed to set a cracking pace and seldom dropped below 25 km/h as I found myself singing "The wheels on the bus"... Am I going mad??

With about 30 km to go I started to notice that I was having some mechanical issues. In two of my lower gears my chain was sticking a little and I simply stayed out of those gears as I didn't feel like making a roadside diagnosis and repair in the driving rain. Instead I decided that I would like to have a service in Vienna while I check out the sites. I think all my cables have stretched since I bought my bike and its time to have them adjusted.

I spent about 30 minute cleaning my bike and gear of muck once I reached my overnight stop of Wachau and unfortunately I have noticed that my rear wheel is slightly buckled. I think it happened when I crossed a very stoney drain.

Today is a public holiday in Austria so I wasn't able to have my wheel trued today. I hope I have some luck tomorrow morning, otherwise I will get out the spoke key and see how I get on doing it myself. Its been a long time since I last trued a wheel.....

I have 105 km to Vienna and am hoping to be up early as I would like to arrive as early as possible. Tomorrow is also meant to be a very wet day. I hope that most of my stuff has dried by the morning.

Today I completed about 100km to from Passau in Germany to Linz in Austria. It was a very warm day and I appreciated the few mandatory ferry crossings that brought welcome breaks.

In the early afternoon I passed a rather fast mountain biker who later caught up to me and passed me. As he did I noticed that on his handlebars and helmet he had an emergency telephone number inscribed. I recognised it as a Zurich number and pulled up to him to have a chat. He too had started in Zurich and is heading to Vienna.

We cycled together for about 2 hours before we pulled into Linz in the early afternoon. Having some company for a few hours made the going a lot easier and the hours passed a lot quicker.

Linz too looks like a really pretty city but I was very tired and soon fell asleep. I woke in the early evening and made my way out to explore the city when the heavens opened up and I hastily returned to my hotel.