Long Live the Web: The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
Web creator, Tim Berners-Lee, writing in the November 2010 Scientific American, about current threats to the internet as we know it, including recent attacks on the principles of universality and open standards.
Without some form of forgetting, forgiving becomes a difficult undertaking.
Cyberscholar Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, as quoted in The New York Times magazine piece “The Web Means the End of Forgetting” by law professor, Jeffrey Rosen.
[P]eople only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies wouldn’t pay you! They didn’t pay anyone! Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone. So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t.
— Mick Jagger —
Building an Internet of Things
Building an Internet of Things
From SingularityHub.com: “Massive data collection could change the world. Companies all over the globe are working on ways to use tracking and internet connectivity to give new digital life to physical objects and locations … Our objects have things to say, and … companies are aiming to get nearly everything you own to share that information. We have an internet of people, now we are starting to build an Internet of Things. Take a moment and imagine a future where every object you own has a presence on the internet.”
The Internet & Democracy Blog
The team blog for the Internet & Democracy Project, a research initiative at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
EFF’s Internet Law Treatise
EFF’s Internet Law Treatise (currently in beta – read the disclaimer on the site) is a project to maintain a free, open licensed, collaborative treatise summarizing the law related to the Internet with the cooperation of a wide variety of attorneys, law students and others.
“EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers, and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties. The views expressed in the Internet Law Treatise are not necessarily those of EFF.”