My new Financial Times column on the creation of a science commons is now up. For the ungated version, read on…
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Archive for December, 2009
Fahrenheit 451… Book burning as done by lawyers
In Ray Bradbury’s 1953 classic, Fahrenheit 451, a “fireman” is a man who burns books “for the good of humanity.” Written at the height of the Cold War, the book paints a shockingly dystopian picture of a culture at war with its own printed record, one deeply infused by Bradbury’s love of books. › Continue reading
Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks is the best book about the economics of an information society and the ways that peer production can transform some of our basic economic assumptions. › Continue reading
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