The Future of Ideas and Code v 2.0
I just finished reading Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace v1.0. Brilliant - I will write more about it later. I also bought the Future of Ideas which I lent out and do not expect it back anytime soon if history plays itself out again. I went looking for other Lessig books and happily found Code v2.0 in pdf format & Wiki format, the Future of Ideas in pdf format and Free Culture. All under a Creative Commons
license of course. Normally I would buy the books before I download a free copy as I like to support the authors when I can. In this case I have purchased the two former, one of them twice and feel quite content to try and read the three pdfs on a screen. Lessig was also kind enough to allow for the pdfs to be highlighted and annotated. Unfortunately my Unbuntu pdf reader does not provide me with such tools which makes reading in bed or on the sofa that much harder!
As I was reading the Preface of Code v2.0 i discovered other titles of interest, Who Controls the Internet (there is also a Lessig Paper with that title as the opening question of Who Owns the Internet) and The Wealth of Networks also freely available online in pdf either as a whole or one chapter at a time and htlm. Oddly, no one in Ottawa has either of these books in stock. I will have to read the online versions until which time someone comes to their senses! We are silicon valley north are we not! Sheesh!





