January, 2006

Liberation: It’s Here

by Eric S. Raymond
The Conversation
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 [...]

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

by Eric S. Raymond
The Conversation
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 [...]

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