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The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig : Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime.

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The excess of control

Felix Stalder 08.01.2002

The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig

In 'The Future of Ideas' Lawrence Lessig, a professor at the Stanford Law School, conveys a bleak message: We are destroying the conditions of freedom and creativity on the Internet. Right at the moment when the Internet has begun to show its full potential for increasing growth and innovation globally, a counterrevolution is threatening, if not already succeeding, to undermine this potential.

Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those, who would prosper under the new. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

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