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New Release 2.0: Living in Code (News, O'Reilly Reader)
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Written by Enniv Zarf
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
Sponsored by: By Jimmy guterman
Today we're publishing the new issue of Release 2.0. What follows is drawn from my editor's letter in this issue. If you read anything this month other than this issue of Release 2.0, make it Jonathan Zittrain’s Saving the Internet in the June Harvard Business Review. (Disclosure: I do some work for HBR’s parent company.) So lively you might be surprised it was written by a law professor, the article is wildly ambitious, ranging from Wile E. Coyote metaphors to a meditation on the nature of Netizenship. Zittrain’s main argument is that “generativity,” our ability to create via the Net, is the most exciting—and worrisome—aspect of the Net. Indeed, what makes the Net great is also precisely what makes it so dangerous. And, despite the libertarian perspective of many prominent Netizens, many thinkers believe that the virtual world is becoming increasingly similar to the real one in that appropriate laws, or at least agreed-upon rules, are necessary for the Net to survive in its open form. If the Internet can be ruined (by everything from criminals to overzealous politicians responding to those criminals), then how can it be saved from that ruin? We have arrived at what Yochai Benkler, in The Wealth of Networks, refers to as “a moment of opportunity and challenge.” READ IT ALL HERE: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives...
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