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Timeline of Food & Tech Sovereignty in the 21st Century

  • 1998 - DMCA & Sonny Bono Act
  • 2000 - USDA Nat'l Organic Program becomes federal regulation1
  • 2001 - First Whole Foods Market in NYC2
  • 2001 - Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
  • 2001 - Napster shuts down; original BitTorrent client released
  • 2001 - arXiv.org launches at Cornell
  • 2002 - Budapest Open Access Initiative
  • 2002 - Creative Commons publishes its first licenses
  • 2003 - Eldred v. Ashcroft
  • 2003 - The Pirate Bay launches
  • 2003 - Public Library of Science publishes its first Open Access journal
  • 2003 - Marcin Jakubowski founds Open Source Ecology
  • 2003 - Wikimedia Foundation est'd
  • 2004 - Wikipedia: 1 million articles in 100 languages
  • 2004 - Stone Barns Ctr for Food & Ag / Blue Hill @ SB open
  • 2004 - Monsanto v Schmeiser (Canada)
  • 2004 - Mozilla Firefox released
  • 2004 - Facebook launches
  • 2005 - YouTube launches
  • 2005 - Yochai Benkler's TED Talk
  • 2005 - Jimmy Wale's TED Talk
  • 2005 - Hans Rosling's TED Talk
  • 2005 - Whole Foods opens new flagship market in Austin2
  • 2005 - First NYC Michelin Guide & Stars
  • 2006 - Malik Yakini starts Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
  • 2006 - Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pllan
  • 2006 - Twitter launches
  • 2006 - DBCFSN starts D-Town Farm
  • 2007 - iPhone launches
  • 2007 - Radiohead releases In Rainbows on a pay-what-you-want model
  • 2007 - Open Handset Alliance est'd to steward Android OSS project
  • 2007 - Mozilla Manifesto published by Mitchell Baker
  • 2007 - The "housing bubble" bursts, triggering a global financial crisis
  • 2007 - Declaration of Nyéléni
  • 2007 - Joel Salatin, Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
  • 2007 - Michael Pollan's TED Talk
  • 2007 - Lawrence Lessig TED Talk
  • 2008 - The world's banking system collapses at the onset of the "Great Recession"
  • 2008 - Food, Inc. w/ Michael Pollan & Eric Schlosser
  • 2009 - Alice Waters spurs Michelle Obama to plant organic garden @ WH
  • 2010 - WikiLeaks releases Collateral Murder video
  • 2011 - Arab Spring & Occupy Wall Street
  • 2011 - United States v. Aaron Swartz
  • 2011 - Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal
  • 2011 - OSGATA v Monsanto
  • 2012 - Internet blackout in protest of SOPA/PIPA
  • 2012 - Occupy the Farm on Gill Tract at UC Berkeley
  • 2012 - Open Source Seed Initiative founded
  • 2013 - Edward Snowden disclosures on NSA surveillance

Footnotes

  1. "National Organic Program: A Rule by the Agricultural Marketing Service", Federal Register, 21 Dec 2000. ↩

  2. Whole Foods' first store in NYC opened in Chelsea in Feb 2001. The Austin Business Journal notes refers to their Austin HQ as "the new 80,000-square-foot store -- the company's largest" in "New Whole Foods headquarters set for grand opening" (Feb 22, 2005). Compare with the history page on the Whole Foods website:

    Two years later, John and Renee partnered with Craig Weller and Mark Skiles to merge SaferWay with their Clarksville Natural Grocery, resulting in the opening of the original Whole Foods Market on September 20, 1980. At 10,500 square feet and a staff of 19, this store was quite large in comparison to the standard health food store of the time.

    ↩ ↩2