_1984_ Foreword: Pynchon & the Internet

[Michael Joseph]

On Sat, 17 May 2003, pynchonoid wrote:

>
> Internet is dying - Prof. Lessig
> By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
> Posted: 15/05/2003 at 21:33 GMT
>
> The Internet is dying, says Lawrence Lessig, a law
> professor with a cult following amongst technophiles.
>

Lessig's blog however . . .

"So the Register has a piece about my post yesterday, attacking Dr.
Pangloss and his predictions that the Internet will save us all from the
dangers of media concentration. Midway through, Andrew Orlowski writes,
The Internet is dying, he writes. Actually, thats not quite what I wrote,
the quotes not withstanding. What I wrote was: The Internet that is to be
the savior is a dying breed. That is, the end-to-end Internet, where the
edge holds the intelligence, is a dying breed. Something called the
Internet will be with us forever, so in that sense, the Internet will
never die. But the end-to-end internet (the only internet that really
matters to any important issue) is a more fragile beast."

posted on [ May 16 03 at 1:56 PM ] to [ free culture ] [ 5 comments

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/

initial post:
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_05.shtml#001180

allusion to TP seems misplaced. Did Pynchon's "social control" passage
allude to free market economy issues?


Michael