Books I Need to Read
So this past week I received these books from Amazon:
- The Future of Ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world by Lawrence Lessig
- Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessig
- The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler
I’m excited. I’ve already been reading Code: Version 2.0 (the updated version of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace), also written by Lawrence Lessig, and am slowly approaching its final pages.
This is the type of stuff I want to go into. I aspire to be like Lawrence Lessig and Yochai Benkler, who are Stanford and Harvard Law professors, respectively. Since around a year ago, I’ve felt like that— “cyber” and constitutional law— was my purpose (at least the secular side of things). I just wish I had more time to read these books for fun.
And… this isn’t really necessary, but here’s what my desk looks like now with those books.
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Free Culture was great. Hope Code 2.0 is just as good? I definitely need to read it sometime.
Go forth and free information! xP
I loved The Future of Ideas when I read it several years ago. I should read more Lessig.
My problem with him is the same as RMS’s - some of the Creative Commons licenses are too restrictive, and it’s hard to endorse some without endorsing all of them, so I’m forced to not really support any of them (though I’m not actively against them, I just prefer GPL)…
Thanks Dustin!
Out of curiosity, Joseph, why do you think CC licenses are too restrictive?
Dude, your desk is so organized. o.O Scary. Makes me want to look at my desk and cry. I need more desk real estate.
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