Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Freedom depends on the use of the past
Lawrence Lessig, from this flash presentation of his speech at the Open Source Convention 2002:
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