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Code

And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0

Lawrence Lessig

Explore the controversial topic of regulating cyberspace in Code, a thought-provoking book by Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig. Lessig warns that the character of cyberspace is at risk of changing from a realm of relative freedom to one of perfect control, where commercial forces dictate our identities, actions, and desires. In Code, Lessig examines how the core values of cyberspace - intellectual property, free speech, and privacy - are under threat and what we can do to safeguard them. Discover how code, the architecture and law of cyberspace, can influence behavior and the values we adopt. A must-read for anyone concerned with the survival of democratic values in the Information Age.
Publish Date
2006-12-05T00:00:00.000Z
2006-12-05T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1999
Goodreads Rating
3.94
ISBN
9780465039142
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2009-06-21T00:00:00.000Z
This book gave me a whole new set of tools for thinking about the complex interplay between four forces: government laws and regulations, social norms, technology, and markets. Lessig makes a simple but profound case that you can't think of technical issues in isolation from their legal and cultural context.      source