Another TED Favorite

Lawerence Lessig's book Remix is coming this fall. His idea of how creativity among the masses has been stifled is quite interesting. He compares it to a programing language. In the beginning there was Read/Write with families telling stories, singing songs, etc. Then came the age of television and radio. Only a select few were still creating, WRITE, while the masses consumed, READ. And now with Internet technologies this is changing again, and it looks something like from days' past. View the presentation given at TED in 2007. I think Lawerence is on to something.

On a side note, I'm also becoming interested in the idea of slow communities and this concept of network withdraw from "fast" communities. Is going on a 5 day vacation without a network connection that detrimintal to someone's health? Will Richardson seems to be feeling the pain and introduces the idea of slow communities he learned from Nancy White.