This book is a primer of "running code" for digital civilization. "Lawrence Lessig is a James Madison of our time, crafting the lineaments of a well-tempered cyberspace.If you want to know what daily life will be like in the computer-mediated twenty-first century, this is essential reading."
"Lawrence Lessig takes seriously the proposition that, in cyberspace, code is the law, and he traces out the consequences in a lucid and insightful way.Code is essential reading for those who care about the future of cyberspace, and of the human society within which "cyberspace" plays an increasingly central role." "Lawrence Lessig exposes the limits of prevailing views about how cyberspace is (and is not) regulated, and makes a compelling case for the urgency of learning to transcend those limits.Lemley, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley He is a master at seeing the important ideas lurking behind things we all take for granted." Lessig's ideas are deep and insightful, and they will shape the way the future develops. "This may be the most important book ever published about the Internet, as well as one of the most readable."Lessig penetrates the cyberfluff to reveal the deep structure of our brave new world."īruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University.Jeffrey Rosen, Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic This dark, exhilarating work is the most important book of its generation about the relationship between law, cyberspace, and social organization." Lessig challenges us to make choices about freedom, privacy, intellectual property, and technology that most of us didn't recognize as choices in the first place. The nation's leading scholar of cyberspace has produced a paradigm-shifting work that will transform the debate about the architecture of cyberspace. "Lessig's book is an astonishing achievement."Lessig's exposition reads like a Stanley Kubrick film, with the menace made palpable by new technologies.It is a troubling book, and one that needs to be taken seriously."ĭaniel Bell, author of The Coming of Post-Industrial Society." has staked out a role as one of academia's avant-garde thinkers about cyberspace and the law.".
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