03. ‘ULTRA PROCESSED INTERNET’ with Professor Lawrence Lessig

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We all know that the Internet is ruled by forces vying for our attention, and that often they gain our attention through highly emotive means, in ways that can seem imperceptible until they add up to massive political upheavals or indeed the very questioning of a shared sense of the Truth. What’s more, these very forces are often massive corporations that act beyond the will of any one individual, they are attuned to shareholder value and maximizing growth and profiT.

In this episode we talk with friend of the podcast and advisor to Klang Games, Professor Lawrence Lessig, fresh from his TedX Talk in Berlin about how the Internet is on the cusp of reinventing our politics. But will it be for good or for bad, and what can online communities such as we’re building with SEED teach us?

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Before that he was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. 

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How AI could threaten democracy | Lawrence Lessig | TEDxBerlin

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