The following are on my list for bedtime reading in 2007:
Lawrence Lessig: The Future of Ideas
"The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress. Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us. Vital, eloquent, judicious and forthright, The Future of Ideas is a call to arms that we can ill afford to ignore." http://www.amazon.co.uk/Future-Ideas-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/0375726446/ref=pd_sim_b_3/026-7657051-1831628
Yochai Benkler: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wealth-Networks-Production-Transforms-Markets/dp/0300110561/ref=pd_sbs_b_6/026-7657051-1831628
Chris Anderson: The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand http://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Tail-Endless-Creating-Unlimited/dp/184413850X/ref=pd_sim_b_1/026-7657051-1831628
Robert Scoble: Naked Conversations : How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers http://www.amazon.co.uk/Naked-Conversations-Changing-Businesses-Customers/dp/047174719X/ref=pd_sim_b_1/026-7657051-1831628
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