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The New Testament arrived last year with Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. Code was the Old Testament of cyber-collectivism. “Left to itself,” Lessig warned in Code, “cyberspace will become a perfect tool of control.” He went on to forecast a dystopian future in which nefarious corporate schemers would quash our digital liberties unless benevolent public philosopher kings stepped in to save our poor souls. (See my many battles with Zittrain and my 2-part debate with Lessig earlier this year). As faithful readers will recall, I have relentlessly hammered this crew for their unwarranted cyber-Chicken Little-ism and hyper techno-pessimism. Apparently, 100,000 people already picked up a Droid in just its first weekend on the market.īut here’s the first thing that pops in my mind every time I see someone showing off their new Droid: How can a device like this even exist when America’s leading cyberlaw experts have been telling us that the whole digital world is increasingly going to hell because of “closed” devices, proprietary code, and managed networks? I’m speaking, of course, about the lamentations of Harvard professors Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain, and their many disciples. It makes my HTC Touch seems positively archaic in some ways, and it’s only a year old. And why not, it’s a very cool little device. Seems like everywhere I turn someone is gushing about their new Droid phone, including my TLF colleagues Berin Szoka, Braden Cox, and Ryan Radia, who all had great fun rubbing their new toys in my nose over the past couple of days.
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