iCommons 07: Cory Doctorow on rats
June 19th, 2007
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icommons summit is over, it was definitely worth going. As always, the breaks in between are the best. You find American software-millionaires (wearing jogging suits) chatting away with Finnish Treckies, Macedonian lawyers discussing with German bloggers, British democracy advocates arguing with Brazilian creative-commoners… Loved it. Panels and lectures were not quite breathtaking, but that’s due to the fact that I’ve heard most of the speakers at other occasions. There was one interesting panel, the one about political activism. Cory Doctorow found an interesting metaphor in order to describe why he fell in love with computers at the age of 5:
Cory Doctorow:” There was this experiment with rats. They got electronic shocks in fixed intervals. Since they knew when the next shock was coming, they managed to live a happy life in between the torture. When the scientists put the shock-intervals at random, the rats died within 4 days, since they never knew when it was coming, they were completely under stress. Well, with computers, you can build the world how you want it to be, you can start controlling it, at least partially. Until the next shock is coming.”
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