Not the Aldous Huxley Appreciation Society, but the very highly regarded gathering of concept kids, Teflon techies and Unix utopians. Happening between the 26 to 28 November in the famous Berlage Beurs in Amsterdam, Doors 5, promises to be high on “future thinkings” and low on “suits in silicon”.

As the web site proclaims: “Doors has acquired its reputation from the variety of disciplines and backgrounds from which speakers contribute: here are scientists, designers, philosophers, gurus, critics, misanthropes, and true world changing believers, from five continents. They disagree on most issues - but are united in their determination to address this question: “what are the Internet, information technology and multimedia *for*?” They keep it a live question, so this remains a live site: as was once remarked, “Doors is a journey, not a hole in the wall.”

Indeed. We should have an exclusive feature in issue 60 of the feed for you, thanks to our £1 field informant bunking off college to find out what life is really all about.