Another Skirmish in the Greater Revolution

George Gilder, testifying before the U S Senate Commerce Science and Transportation Committee, waxes sarcastic even cynical over the proposals of regulation for the layers of IP and the cyber-sphere. The proposed regulations would define boundaries between content in layers, which would cease to exist in near future fiber optic channels. The testimony is not easy reading. It includes references to companies in which George has a long-standing personal interest.

This testimony makes a point that is critical to the future of our technology and ultimately our economy. This is must reading if you have any stake in the future. It paints a clear picture of yet another battle line in the global war between industrial age monoliths and the forces for free information, innovation and the promise of tomorrow. Driving the testimony are underlying advances in quantum physics, laser and the goodness of light at the photon level, and Gilder includes the entire E-M spectrum in his acclaim. Larry Lessig might be forgiven for his association with the proposed regulations due to his own war record in the fight for our culture, P2P, and against the totalitarian, draconian and valorizing aspects of the DMCA. Then P-Chemistry or Q-Physics are not pre-requisites of Law school either. Perhaps they should be.