The 1998 paper/speech <https://cyber.harvard.edu/works/lessig/laws_cyberspace.pdf> by Larry Lessig that this event celebrates was remarkably prescient. He foresaw many of the problems that are only just now becoming pain points, and speculated as to solutions. Here is its concluding paragraph:
*Cyberspace is regulated ¾ by laws, but not just by law. The code of cyberspace is one of these laws. We must come to see how this code is an emerging sovereign — omnipresent, omnipotent, gentle, efficient, growing — and that we must develop against this sovereign the limits that we have developed against real space sovereigns. Sovereigns will always say — real space as well as cyberspace — that limits, and inefficiencies — bugs — are not necessary. But things move too quickly for such confidence. My fear is not just that against this sovereign, we have not yet developed a language of liberty. Nor that we haven’t the time to develop such language. But my fear is that we sustain the will — the will of free societies for the past two centuries, to architect constitutions to protect freedom, efficiencies notwithstanding.*
This will be a very interesting session. 4pm NYC time. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/lessig>Today *Monday April 16 2018* at *4pm* ET (20:200 UTC), the* Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society <https://cyber.harvard.edu/>*presents *Force of Nature – Celebrating 20 Years of the Laws of Cyberspace <https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018/04/Lessig>* at Harvard Law School. The event recognizes the 20th anniversary of the paper *The Laws of Cyberspace <https://cyber.harvard.edu/works/lessig/laws_cyberspace.pdf>* (Taipei March ’98) by *Professor Lawrence Lessig*. Speakers: Professor Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, along with *Professor Ruth L. Okediji*, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center, and* Dr. Laura DeNardis*, Professor in the School of Communication at American University, with moderator, *Professor Jonathan Zittrain*, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The event will be *webcast live <https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018/04/Lessig>*, and simulcast on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/lessig/>*. (No captions). *View on Livestream: Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/lessig/>Twitter: @BKCHarvard <https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%40BKCHarvard&src=typd>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10096#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10096#comments> *Permalink* *http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10094 <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10094>* -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -