Instant Classic: Prof. Lessig’s Code v2.0
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Professor Lawrence Lessig has just launched a partly peer-produced version 2 of his seminal book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, available online and as paperback, released under a CC Attribution-ShareAlike license. From the preface to the second edition:
“… The confidence of the Internet exceptionalists has waned. The idea–and even the desire–that the Internet would remain unregulated is gone. And thus, in accepting the invitation to update this book, I faced a difficult choice: whether to write a new book, or to update the old, to make it relevant and readable in a radically different time. I’ve done the latter. …”
Code v2.0 also includes an interesting section on the Z-theory, calling it “the missing piece in code v1.” No doubt, code v2.0 is an instant classic.
