Internet and mobile communications are new infrastructures. They reduce time and distance, but not just reduce it (like trains, planes and automobiles) but are bringing it down to zero. In this connected world, where sharing and group forming is ridiculously easy, we now are our own address. The endpoint of these infrastructures is not a geographic location it is a device in your pocket. !http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2809683915_c046b6ef65_m.jpg!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/2809683915/ (K-Cafe in Enschede, NL, August) Because of this, and the software tools we have build to use on this new infrastructure, a lot of cultural categories are being challenged. Work-life balance, transparancy, organisation, colleagues, structures, results, value, privacy, jobs: all these notions are taking on a new meaning. A lot of the discussion on these changes is however taking place in the language of the 'old' situation. However, to fully express our changed environment, that 'old' language won't do. In this Knowledge Café session we will explore how the mentioned changes have affected our own individual lives and routines. So that we can recognize how things like work-life balance, colleagues, value, transparancy etc, have changed for each of us personally. From that we can start formulating the boundaries, barriers and attractors that make up our way of living and working within those newly (re)defined cultural concepts. !http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3068/2933506915_4c3af4d632_m.jpg!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/2933506915/ (K-Cafe in Ferrara, I, last week) A Knowledge Café is a format of free flowing conversation in small groups, where participants explore the general question or topic by sharing stories, questions and experiences. It ends with a plenary conversation to highlight some of the insights that participants gained. See Wikipedia for more on the format at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Cafe