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Steven Lyle Jordan · 06-19-2008, 08:58 AM

And when us elite are all living the high life on the Riviera, and those peasants are all in their 3rd world hovels, the world will finally be a better place. Long live the Communications Revolution.

May I suggest another book on the MR reading list: Jonathan Zittrain's The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. (And it is available as an e-book.) It makes some strong and valid points about the ultimately unsustainable nature of the combination of the web and the computer as it exists today. That nature is at the heart of the reasons we are even discussing copyright issues, much less e-books, and I think may be more to the point here than The Rational Individual.

06-19-2008, 08:58 AM	#274
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	And when us elite are all living the high life on the Riviera, and those peasants are all in their 3rd world hovels, the world will finally be a better place. Long live the Communications Revolution. May I suggest another book on the MR reading list: Jonathan Zittrain's The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. (And it is available as an e-book.) It makes some strong and valid points about the ultimately unsustainable nature of the combination of the web and the computer as it exists today. That nature is at the heart of the reasons we are even discussing copyright issues, much less e-books, and I think may be more to the point here than The Rational Individual.