January, 2006

The Next Great University Will Be Net-based

by David Gelernter

January 25th, 2006

Here’s a brief reply to Eric, for closure: I completely agree with you regarding the solution to the free-market education problem. I published a couple of pieces on this topic over the last 2-3 months (one in the LA Times, one, appropriately, in Forbes), and I am now part of a project working along these [...]

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Liberated from What?

by Jaron Lanier

January 25th, 2006

There’s something peculiar about the language of libertarians. In a modern American context, terms like “liberation” and “community” are old lefty code-words. They have become nostalgic. They lend a familiarity and warmth to affairs here in crazy Berkeley. Our archaic tropes mean exactly as much as the ubiquitous “frankly” does in D.C. It’s hard [...]

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Liberation: It’s Here

by Eric S. Raymond

January 25th, 2006

John Perry Barlow:
I guess we’ve run out of time, but to the extent we haven’t, might I encourage you to address one question? I want to know whether you think that the Internet is a liberating phenomenon.
Is that a trick question? Of course the Internet is a liberating phenomenon—it’s liberating in so many different [...]

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Academia and the Internet: Rising From the Stalinist Ashes Like the University of Phoenix

by Eric S. Raymond

January 25th, 2006

Dr. Gelernter, I think your account of Western academia’s failure and mine are different angles on the same story.
(Bear with us, folks, this will get back to Internet liberation; at the end of this rant I’ll explain how the Internet may turn out to be the lever to force constructive change in academia.)
In fact, [...]

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