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Elizabeth Daley
“From my perspective, probably the most important digital divide is not access to a box. It’s the ability to be empowered with the language that that box works in. Otherwise only a very few people can write with this language, and all the rest of us are reduced to being read-only.”
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September 2008
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
“At the beginning of our history, and for just about the whole of our tradition, noncommercial culture was essentially unregulated… the law was never directly concerned with the creation or spread of this form of culture, and it left this culture ‘free.’ The ordinary ways in which ordinary individuals shared and transformed their culture—telling stories, enacting scenes from plays or TV, participating in fan clubs, sharing music, making tapes—were all left alone by law.”
“This rough divide between the free and the controlled has now been erased.” (7-8)
“While there’s no doubt that your father had the right to tinker with the car engine, there’s great doubt that your child will have the right to tinker wtih the images she finds all around. The law and, increasingly, technology interfere with a freedom that technology, and curiosity, would otherwise ensure.” (Lawrence Lessig)
“The Web is the first medium that truly honors multiple forms of intelligence… The Web says if you are musical, if you are artistic, if you are visual, if you are interested in film, then there is a lot you can start to do on this medium… [However,] we are building a legal system that completely suppresses the natural tendencies of today’s digital kids…. We’re building an architecture that unleashes 60 percent of the brain and a legal system that closes down that part of the brain.” (John Seely Brown, chief scientist at Xerox Corporation)
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