New Blog at the Cato Institute
cn | 10 January, 2006 14:36Slashdot had an interesting post this morning pointing to an essay recently posted at Cato Unbound, the Cato Institue's new blogzine. Slashdot's post:
Will Wilkinson writes "Jaron Lanier's recent essay, The Gory Antigora: Illusions of Capitalism and Computers, kicks off a discussion of 'Internet Liberation: Alive or Dead?' at the Cato Institute's new blogazine, Cato Unbound. In Lanier's essay today, find out how the 'brittleness' of software has kept the Internet from realizing its potential as 'a cross between Adam Smith and Albert Einstein; the Invisible Hand accelerating toward the speed of light.' Also, find out why, upon meeting Richard Stallman, Lanier's reaction was: 'An open version of UNIX! Yuk!'"
It's a good essay, especially considering the steps the government appears to be eager to take that would restrict, control, and otherwise supress the Internet, its users, etc. (check out yesterday's post about the newest free speech restrictions).
Cato Unbound home here.The essay here.
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