Transcript of my talk on "Life in the Information Economy"
Greg Young sez, "Had some time on my hands recently which I've filled by transcribing the
Cambridge business lecture you gave recently. (Having found it
interesting, but being a rather 'auditory' thinker who finds it
difficult to indulge my own mental flights from the taking-off point of
your speech while the speech itself is actually playing.)"
Back when I posted this the first time around, many of you asked for a transcript. Many thanks to Greg for this yeoman service! Cory Doctorow's Cambridge Business Lecture, given 22nd July, 2008
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The transcript is great, but could still use some proofreading, especially for the foreign words such as "droit" and "detente". Maybe you could make it available somewhere for collaborative proofreading and corrections?
detente isn't "foriegn". It's in the English dictionary. It originally came from French, but so did many other words.
BTW: It means "a relaxing of tension, esp. between nations, as by negotiations or agreements." -- Random House Unabridged Dictionary
( Droit is also an English word now, by the way.
1. a legal right or claim.
2. droits, Finance, Rare. customs duties.
Middle English, a fee allowed by law, from Old French, right, from Late Latin dīrēctum, from neuter of Latin dīrēctus, straight.
Detente only entered English in the early 1900s, but Droit has been a legal term in English for a long time.
Anon: yeah, was a bit late by the time I sent it in, forgot to actually run a spell-check first. Aside from le francaise terrible, there's bound to be other errors.
As for a wiki-style editable gizmo, I'd be happy to do it, but beyond these couple of errors do you think there's likely to be enough to warrant it?
Also not sure where the best place to post such a thing would be - gutenberg (ok, so not so editable, but still...)? Wikipedia?
Could stick it on my own hosted space, but seems a bit redundant when it's available here and at craphound, where people are most likely to actually look.
I read it. So I get to ask a question, right?C.D. is visionary and seems to think the internet/s will continue to grow and humans will become more integrated with technology. More and more of our culture is going to be digital.