Lessig

Lessig's reading was partitioned into four equally important sections of historical media. With the world constantly evolving, media is doing the same. When technology becomes more innovative, democracy has another new chance to flourish. Think of the world of change the daguerreotype made during the American Civil War. Pictures of bloody battles could be shown to the world and other acts could no longer be covered up. As pictures evolved, we came to the point now where everyone and litterally some of their dogs have cell phones with digital cameras on them. As for Just Think! it was a great chance to enable children to become much more media literate. As a result, these kids were able to "tinker" not with heavy machinery, but with something far more lethal. Ideas. As for the 9/11 attacks on the US, the media was there in every way, with music for breaks even programed to be more in line with the tone of the news reports. When Lessig speaks about blogging, he notes that this may be the most democratic tool of all. Right now millions of people all over the world are making their ideas and beliefs heard in a way that is accessable to everyone else. Finally, Lessig writes about OSS software and how it is also changing the world with limitless possibilities to how it can be changed and bettered.

These stories all link together in a way that is quite evident to the average person. As technology has changed, media has followed. While media changes, the way we see the world is changed with it. Towards the end of the last century, the media became a much less "Reader Only" world into an interactive world where people think aloud and comment on every story on every news website. Every YouTube video has comments of people telling them it was awesome or how much it sucked. Videos have video responses now too, where people can tell them personally what they think. When it comes to things like blogging and OSS, they will continue to evolve until eventually, something comes along that makes the process even more democratic.