[Fsf-friends] RE: A must read

N S Srikanth srikanthns@vsnl.com
Sun Mar 28 11:04:53 IST 2004


On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:45:20 +0530
"Mahesh T. Pai" <paivakil@vsnl.net> wrote:

> Just published.
> 
> `Free Culture' - a book by Larry Lessig.
> 
> Available   for   free   under   a   free   of   cost   license   from
> http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/ or for a price from Penguin.
> 
> He admits that his ideas were propounded by RMS a few decades back.
> 
> Fours hours after publications, I am at page 30 of the pdf.
Dear Mr Pai,

Though not exactly talking only about techonology, The book
"Third Wave" by Alvin Toffler is also about the same subject
of change, how it threatens the existing institutions etc.,

I am yet to finish that book also , only gone through about 
270 pages of the 470 page book. But I am only at page 20 of this
book (free culture), but eerie feeling of sameness of the discussion about the
dangers, which do not have the immediacy of hunger, poverty, terrorism etc and
hence do not get the attention they deserve, but will cause the greatest
long range disaster.

Would request you to go through "Third wave" too, time and interest permitting.

Will finish "Free Culture" and again come back.

N S Srikanth

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