People Still Have A Choice, But, If

It's Not That You Have Jobs On The Internet, But The Internet Makes It Possible For More People To Build Their Own Jobs. What It Does Is, It Erodes The Power Of Institutions. It Used To Be You Needed An Institution To Have A Job. But, If You Look At The Three Of Us On This Show, I Don't Think Any Of Us Is Really Employed By An Institution. We Run Our Own Lives.

Well, Take The Evolution Of The Electronic Frontier Foundation. It Began As Hackers' Rights. Then It Became General Civil Liberties Of Everybody - Government Stay Away.

Owning The Intellectual Property Is Like Owning Land: You Need To Keep Investing In It Again And Again To Get A Payoff; You Can't Simply Sit Back And Collect Rent.

We Had Made A - Sort Of A National Decision That We Wanted To Be This Intellectual Property Country, Where We Would Have Things Manufactured In China, But We Would Do The Design, We Would Do The Creative Stuff.and Now What We Have Done Is, We Have Forgotten That That's What We Wanted, And We're Making The Intellectual Stuff More And More Free. And, So, We're Sort Of Left With Less And Less.

Oh, That All The Things My Father Had Told Me About How Disgusting Washington Is Are True. And Again It's The System - There Are Lots Of Nice, Well-meaning People There. But It's A Sleazy Place. And Politics Is All About Doing Favors.