I am staying with the technology theme. Today's hour was spent reading from Lessig's "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace".

• However much we romanticize the old days when the Net was a place for conversation and exchange, this is not its function for most of its users now.
• Cyberspace has changed in part because the people - who they are, what their interests are - have changed, and in part because the capabilities provided by the space have changed.
• Spaces have values. They express these values through the practices or lives that they enable or disable.
• The early text-based limitations of the Net enabled classes of people (the blind, the deaf, and the "ugly") who were disabled in real-space life. (p.65)
• AOL is a different normaative world; it can create this different world because it is in control of the architecture of that world. [end of chapter 6, p. 84]