If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of sharing resources freely on the Internet for fostering creativity and innovation.
Lawrence Lessig highlights that the power of the Internet lies in its ability to offer shared resources, allowing individuals and communities to leverage these resources to create and innovate. He suggests that when essential resources are made accessible to all, it fosters an environment where creative collaboration can thrive, ultimately leading to greater societal benefits.
In practice
A keynote speech on the future of open-source software.
And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.
In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.
Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
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With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.
With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away.
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