The People Own Ideas!
By Lawrence Lessig June 2005
We entered the youth camp that morning by passing down a long, white
gravel road and under a wooden gate. Spread to one side, and for as far
as you could see, were rows and rows of tents. In front were scores of
showers, with hundreds of kids in swimsuits milling about, waiting to
rinse. It felt like a refugee camp.
In a sense, it was. More than a hundred thousand had descended upon
Porto Alegre, Brazil, to attend the World Social Forum, a conference
intended to offer a progressive alternative to the much smaller, and
much more famous, World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland
(see "Letter from Davos," April 2005).
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/issue/feature_people.asp
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
