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Lawrence Lessig Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“A major national newspaper could have the highest-paid technology writer in the world. But what happens to that writer when it turns out that the columns read by more, and recommended by most, are written by eighteen-year-old bloggers? The New York Times used to have the power to say who was the most significant . A much more democratic force does that now.”
— Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Tagged: Cultural Gatekeepers, Mass Control, Cultura, Cultural Elitism vs. Democratic Consumerism
“A network that is as neutral as possible is predictable: all applications are treated alike.”
— Lawrence Lessig, Timothy Wu, Ex Parte Submission in CS Docket No. 02-52
Tagged: Net Neutrality, Arguments for Net Neutrality, Universality
“The most valuable contribution to our economy comes from connectivity, not content.”
— Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Tagged: Connection, Connectionism, Medium = Message
“For most of the Middle Ages in Europe, the elite spoke and wrote in Latin. The masses did not. They spoke local, or vernacular, languages— what we now call French, German, and English. What was important to the elites was thus inaccessible to the masses. The most 'important' texts were understood by only a few.”
— Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Tagged: Democratization, Opening of Culture, Opening of Language
“We live life in real space, subject to the effects of code. We live ordinary lives, subject to the effects of code. We live social and political lives, subject to the effects of code. Code regulates all these aspects of our lives, more pervasively over time than any other regulator in our life. Should we remain passive about this regulator? Should we let it affect us without doing anything in return?”
— Lawrence Lessig, Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0
Tagged: Control Systems, Codes, Behavioral Frameworks, Regulation
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