Free Culture
Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and can’t do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine.
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Suppression
Free expression is stifled now. It shows in every aspect of Social life. Art is confined to the technical media and what the designers want it to do. Engineering only truly flourishes in the world of Digital Communication. Everything piece of information and Social connection is Governed by a Technocracy in which it's no longer clear where Government and Corporations begin and end.