Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The Right to Read
Just in case you were interested in pondering some of the darker "what-ifs" related to the digitization of media, here is Richard Stallman's magnificent short story/call to arms "The Right To Read."
Labels:
civil liberties,
digital media,
ebooks,
open source,
philosophy,
privacy
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Wow- very much a piece of dystopia literature, yet very plausible. It does make you wonder why Google, a huge money machine, would be scanning all of those books- they have to have some type of plan for profit!?? or am I just freaking myself out :)
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