The Future of Ideas
The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig is a 2001 Science & Technology book written by TED speaker Lawrence Lessig, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "How AI could hack democracy" (2024), 523K views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 23 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 1st of 2 books by Lawrence Lessig on Books Worth Reading (2001–2004), by publication year.
- Edition: Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2001 · 368 pages
The paired TED talk
How AI could hack democracy (2024), the TED talk by Lawrence Lessig.
From the publisher
In The future of ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress. Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us.