I rarely get political on this blog, but we’re at a junction in time where I feel excited for the future. As someone involved intimately in technology culture, I’m an adamant supporter of Obama, as he is an adamant supporter of us. At an ideological level, Obama makes me look forward to moving toward the future, While Clinton makes me look forward to moving back to the 90s. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s not very inspiring is it?
Larry Lessig is the founder and CEO of the Creative Commons and board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. These two entities have shaped me over the past two years in terms of rethinking the way I see creativity and ownership. In this video essay, he beautifully explains the wide divide, within the tiny difference, between Clinton and Obama.
20 minutes into this video I physically shook my head yes as he addresses a perspective that has never occurred to me.
update: this is the top rated comment on the digg.com page for this video:
If you like Lawrence Lessig here’s another great reason to support Obama’s campaign: They went directly to Lessig with their technology policy to get his feedback. This strongly suggests that in an Obama administration, Lessig or Lessig-minded people would be in charge of federal technology policy. Us “Internet Culture” people have been wandering in the wilderness this whole time, and in 2009 we could be *running* federal policy. Now that’s something to hope for!
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