[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.09,0:00:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you Tom, it's a great pleasure to be here Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.65,0:00:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm very glad to have the opportunity to talk Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.71,0:00:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the questions that concern me most Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.10,0:00:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a context which allows us to talk a little bit Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.68,0:00:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about journalism and a little bit about ignorance Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.25,0:00:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a little bit about abuse of power Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.92,0:00:24.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem presented by The Press Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.71,0:00:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is to say by the machinery of communication Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.42,0:00:31.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since we began industrializing communication Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.100,0:00:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fighting ignorance in Europe, Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.16,0:00:35.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the 15th Century Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.99,0:00:38.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem posed by the Press Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.15,0:00:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is its almost impossible affiliation with power Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.10,0:00:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Press and power are difficult to keep apart Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.56,0:00:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more difficult to keep apart than peanut butter Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.81,0:00:50.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and jelly, more difficult to keep apart Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.43,0:00:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than night and day. Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.96,0:00:55.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Press and power fell into one another's Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.54,0:00:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,embrace from the very beginning Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.49,0:00:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because from the very beginning it was clear Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.63,0:01:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the alternative to an embrace between Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.39,0:01:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Press and power Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.92,0:01:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is constant Revolution fueled by people's desire Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.29,0:01:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to know and to free themselves Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.75,0:01:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to act in their own best interests Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.21,0:01:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regardless of power's best interests Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.58,0:01:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our adoption of the Press in the European world Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.86,0:01:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brought on the collapse of the unity Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.08,0:01:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Christendom and the end of the system Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.24,0:01:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the control of the mind Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.29,0:01:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was the universal Catholic Church Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.42,0:01:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that great intellectual, political, Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.56,0:01:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moral revolution we called the Reformation Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.48,0:01:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The response to the Reformation was the Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.73,0:01:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lesson in all European societies, Protestant Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.98,0:01:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Catholic both that the Press could not Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.56,0:01:43.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be allowed to be free. Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.91,0:01:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the result was censorship almost Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.58,0:01:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everywhere for hundreds of years Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.90,0:01:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In those few places in Europe -- in Holland Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.38,0:01:54.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the United Kingdom -- actually in England Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.45,0:01:59.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after 1650, and then again after 1695 -- Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.79,0:02:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in those few places where the Press was free Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.04,0:02:05.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to print without control, the result was the Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.78,0:02:08.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intellectual, political, and moral revolution Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.43,0:02:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we call the Enlightenment and the Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.36,0:02:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,French Revolution, that is Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.12,0:02:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a further demonstration that allowing people Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.07,0:02:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to know, to learn, to educate one another Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.92,0:02:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to share will bring about Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.66,0:02:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deconcentration of Power and threat to every Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.36,0:02:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"ancien regime" Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.93,0:02:32.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the age of capitalist industrial media Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.18,0:02:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of which we are now passing Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.46,0:02:37.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the marriage between the Press and power was Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.71,0:02:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once again a matter of magnetic attraction Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.40,0:02:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Press, that is the industrial production and Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.96,0:02:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,distribution of organized information -- Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.72,0:02:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Press became the handmaiden of the Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.01,0:02:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ownership class. Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.01,0:02:55.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freedom of the Press Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.57,0:02:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the great American press critic Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.91,0:02:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A. J. Liebling wrote Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.72,0:03:01.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Freedom of the Press belongs to him who owns one" Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.90,0:03:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and throught the 20th Century Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.53,0:03:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both with respect to the Press Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.69,0:03:08.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to its close kissing cousin, Broadcast Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.87,0:03:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was most affirmatively true Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.79,0:03:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are now passing out of the age Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.16,0:03:17.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Press Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.07,0:03:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we are passing out of the very idea Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.64,0:03:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that there is {\u1}a{\u0} machine that transforms Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.50,0:03:25.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,information from the local and the temporary Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.47,0:03:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the permanent and the ever-present. Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.84,0:03:31.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are instead beginning to live inside Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.49,0:03:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a digital nervous system which links Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.44,0:03:35.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every human being on the planet Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.57,0:03:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to every other human being on the planet Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.92,0:03:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually or potentially Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.15,0:03:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without any intermediaries Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.24,0:03:45.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the end of the next generation Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.79,0:03:48.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever horrors or victories have happened Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.65,0:03:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the meantime Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.37,0:03:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the end of the next generation Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.62,0:03:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will live in that world Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.27,0:03:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of pervasive human social interconnection Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.84,0:03:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is what we really mean Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.28,0:04:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we talk about "the Internet" Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.07,0:04:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every fax machine -- well, the few remaining -- Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.64,0:04:09.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every scanner, every printer, every telephone Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.43,0:04:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every camera, every video camera Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.45,0:04:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did I say telephone..telephone..telephone.. Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.42,0:04:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,telephone? Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.63,0:04:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every object with electrical power behind it Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.88,0:04:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be an information-gathering and Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.25,0:04:23.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,distribution system controlled Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.41,0:04:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by some human being, somewhere, Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.36,0:04:27.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at one end or at the other. Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.59,0:04:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it is controlled at the end where the Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.44,0:04:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human beings are, where they struggle Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.51,0:04:35.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they seek to sell their vegetables Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.39,0:04:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they are affronted by a policeman Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.64,0:04:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,refusing to allow them to sell their vegetables Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.66,0:04:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they act in the street to deal with the Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.91,0:04:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aftermath of a vegetable seller prevented Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.30,0:04:48.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from selling his vegetables by a Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.23,0:04:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,officious policeman Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.76,0:04:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everywhere we will have knowledge Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.62,0:04:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being produced by people Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.54,0:04:57.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to free themselves. Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.01,0:05:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consider this: In Indian right now Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.51,0:05:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the poorest of the poor have mobile phones Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.09,0:05:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and on that mobile phone -- each person's Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.74,0:05:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mobile phone -- every book, every piece of music Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.64,0:05:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every piece of video, every map, every Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.38,0:05:16.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scientific experiment, every kind of Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.46,0:05:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,information that is useful and beautiful Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.72,0:05:21.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be made available to every single person Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.67,0:05:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were it not for the rules against sharing Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.96,0:05:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All we have left in that great nervous system Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.96,0:05:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of humanity -- all that we have left that makes Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.81,0:05:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ignorance compulsory are the rules against Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.58,0:05:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sharing Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.32,0:05:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the rules against sharing are gone Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.96,0:05:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- and they will go -- Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.80,0:05:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ignorance will, for the first time Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.03,0:05:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the history of the human race, Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.16,0:05:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be entirely preventable everywhere Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.86,0:05:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are watching around the world right now Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.92,0:05:52.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as young people demonstrate that they Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.66,0:05:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are willing to stand in front of bullets Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.64,0:05:56.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Liberty. Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.57,0:05:59.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Later in this Century you will watch as Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.31,0:06:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,young people around the world demonstrate Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.72,0:06:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they are willing to stand in front Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.35,0:06:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of bullets in order to have the freedom to learn. Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.04,0:06:10.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When that happens, the human race will go through Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.29,0:06:13.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most important revolution since 1789, Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.98,0:06:17.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an "ancien regime" which deserves to perish Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.05,0:06:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will perish throughout the world Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.30,0:06:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here today we are discussing a few, simple, Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.99,0:06:27.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,precursor parts to that enormous revolution. Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.56,0:06:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dis-intermediation of the systems of Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.42,0:06:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,controlled information production and Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.04,0:06:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,distribution which have been with us since the Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.04,0:06:39.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,morning after Gutenberg. Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.41,0:06:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this is the day after the morning Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.43,0:06:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after Gutenberg. Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.86,0:06:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the moment when the disparities Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.84,0:06:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of power and the disparaties of access Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.02,0:06:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,begin to give way Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.67,0:06:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and on the other side, at this moment, Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.34,0:06:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are almost all the governments Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.87,0:06:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and almost all the Press Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.82,0:07:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and almost all the incumbents who do not Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.88,0:07:08.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want the World to change. Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.69,0:07:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was having dinner with a government Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.01,0:07:12.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,official in Washington, D.C. earlier this week Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.77,0:07:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said to him "You know, about half the Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.88,0:07:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,television networks in Europe seem to be chasing Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.14,0:07:22.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,me for an interview to discuss the Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.39,0:07:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hypocrisy of American government Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.34,0:07:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Internet freedom policy," Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.17,0:07:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said "and if half the television networks in Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.52,0:07:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Europe want to talk to me about the hypocrisy Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.77,0:07:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of American Internet freedom policy, that Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.51,0:07:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suggests to me that the State Department Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.74,0:07:36.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has a problem. Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.67,0:07:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said "Yes, they know they have a problem, Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.62,0:07:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they want to do something about it." Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.27,0:07:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they should, Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.92,0:07:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but every government on Earth Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.66,0:07:46.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has difficulty talking about Internet freedom Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.33,0:07:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,straight, because every government on Earth Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.67,0:07:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is part of a structure of power which stands to Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.02,0:07:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lose in one way or another from free information Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.38,0:07:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flows, just as the great economic institutions Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.28,0:08:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dominating our time, the great surveillance Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.05,0:08:04.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,institutions which offer you the chance to search Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.21,0:08:06.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as long as you share everything you search, Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.78,0:08:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and free email, as long as you let them read it, Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.52,0:08:11.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and free telephone calls, as long as they can Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.71,0:08:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listen in -- just for the purposes of advertsing, Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.75,0:08:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mind you. Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.30,0:08:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please, bring half a million people here Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.23,0:08:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and live your social life inside my surveillance Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.46,0:08:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,system. I'll take good care of you. Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.69,0:08:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, unless you're in the street protesting Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.03,0:08:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against dictatorship, in which case what we will Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.68,0:08:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tell you is: our great social networking service Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.46,0:08:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is rigidly neutral between dictators and Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.20,0:08:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people in the street fighting them... Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.34,0:08:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not our concern here at whatchamacallit Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.22,0:08:46.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a transitional stage, you understand? Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.95,0:08:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've told you where we're going. Now the question Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.62,0:08:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is how are we going to get there? Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.10,0:08:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's how we're going to get there: Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.66,0:08:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the World's going to fill up with cheap, small, Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.94,0:09:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,low-powered devices that are going to replace Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.21,0:09:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of the computers you're accustomed to. Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.18,0:09:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All those big ones on desktops and in closets, Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.18,0:09:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in rooms full of servers somewhere, replaced by things Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.28,0:09:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not much larger than a cell phone charger, and Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.05,0:09:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very, very, very much more capable Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.02,0:09:21.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the first computer you ever owned, Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.37,0:09:23.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whichever one it was Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.22,0:09:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or maybe even the computer you're Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.04,0:09:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using now. Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.38,0:09:28.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those devices are going to cost next to nothing Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.33,0:09:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're going to be everywhere, and Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.58,0:09:35.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to make software that runs in them Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.23,0:09:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of them, that a 12 year old can install Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.22,0:09:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a 6 year old can use Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.54,0:09:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which will allow people to communicate freely Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.01,0:09:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everywhere, all the time, net of state control Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.42,0:09:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,net of profitmaker control, Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.16,0:09:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,net of control, they will be Freedom Boxes. Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.64,0:09:54.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will make Freedom. Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.87,0:09:56.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't have to make the boxes -- the boxes Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.61,0:09:58.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are going to fill the world. We just need to make Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.33,0:10:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,software. And the good news is that we don't Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.42,0:10:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need to make software, we make it already. Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.58,0:10:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody in this room with an Android phone is Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.53,0:10:09.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using it. Everybody in this room who has Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.41,0:10:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,touched Facebook today, they were using it Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.66,0:10:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the other side. Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.19,0:10:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody who used a bank or a supermarket Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.35,0:10:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or an insurance company or a train station Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.60,0:10:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the last week interacted with our software. Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.60,0:10:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's everywhere. We made it to be everywhere Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.52,0:10:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's Free. Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.96,0:10:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means we can copy it, modify it, Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.29,0:10:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and redistribute it freely. Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.91,0:10:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It also means that it works for people, Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.66,0:10:31.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not for companies. Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.49,0:10:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this is already done. This is the result Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.86,0:10:35.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of 25 years of effort on our part. Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.100,0:10:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, right now, in the street, right now, Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.90,0:10:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we begin to show why it protects Freedom Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.38,0:10:44.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and why people need it. Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.31,0:10:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we begin to prepare to deliver it to them. Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.02,0:10:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A. J. Liebling, that press critic I was Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.79,0:10:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking of before, wrote once Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.18,0:10:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The American press reminds me of a Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.04,0:11:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 billion dollar superheated, absolutely Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.49,0:11:02.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,state of the art fish cannery relying for all Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.33,0:11:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its fish on 6 guys in leaky rowboats." Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.16,0:11:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The point being, of course, that the great Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.60,0:11:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,monolithic industrial press of the 20th Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.71,0:11:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Century did everything well except reporting, Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.61,0:11:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which it did poorly, because reporting Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.00,0:11:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the free lunch in the saloon, and any time Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.93,0:11:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the saloonkeeper could cut back on it, he did. Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.76,0:11:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't need to tell you that that process has Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.48,0:11:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accelerated since A. J. Liebling died in 1975. Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.14,0:11:31.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we live now in a world where we're Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.70,0:11:34.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about to fill a gap in reporting. Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.65,0:11:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what fills the gap in reporting -- it was Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.34,0:11:40.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,referred to in the moments we've already had together Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.73,0:11:44.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's all those phones, all those video cameras, all those tweets. Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.61,0:11:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, we have already democratized Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.26,0:11:49.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the system of reporting. Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.60,0:11:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is scary for the establishment Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.83,0:11:55.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Wikileaks is that Wikileaks is to Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.41,0:11:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,newsgathering what Craig's List is to Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.29,0:12:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,classified advertising. Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.63,0:12:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It changes the economy of leaking Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.02,0:12:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hate to be correcting anybody on any point Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.36,0:12:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I should point out that Wikileaks Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.60,0:12:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has not released 250,000 State Department Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.54,0:12:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cables. It {\i1}has{\i0} 250,000 State Department cables Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.93,0:12:19.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and has released about 2,000 of them. Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.81,0:12:21.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is about the number of diplomatic Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.53,0:12:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cables showed to diplomatic correspondents around the world Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.24,0:12:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working for major newspapers every single day. Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.54,0:12:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But nobody says that's treason, because that's Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.77,0:12:34.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the official commerce in leaking, from which Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.49,0:12:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,government officials and press lords and Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.34,0:12:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,owners around the World derive benefit Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.22,0:12:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every single day Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.34,0:12:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Economic power, political power Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.89,0:12:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the power to keep people ignorant. Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.46,0:12:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is happening in the 'Net, now, Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.44,0:12:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in those phones, in those Tor exit nodes, Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.01,0:12:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what will be happening in the World Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.27,0:12:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,multiplied by a hundred, shortly, Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.70,0:13:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all those Freedom Boxes is, Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.30,0:13:04.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,information being free for the benefit of those Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.100,0:13:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who need. Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.32,0:13:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ask yourself what will happen when Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.34,0:13:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody who needs can have Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.68,0:13:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everybody who can make, supplies. Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.28,0:13:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What will happen in neighborhoods Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.86,0:13:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What will happen in police stations Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.69,0:13:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What will happen when there's a fire Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.73,0:13:28.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or an earthquake, what will happen when there's Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.33,0:13:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tyrant coming down. Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.02,0:13:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those same little boxes I'm talking about Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.84,0:13:38.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will also be able to do wireless mesh networking Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.76,0:13:41.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is to say that if somebody turns out Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.29,0:13:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the telecommunications network in a neighborhood Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.28,0:13:47.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the neighborhood will keep functioning. Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.95,0:13:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Mr. Mubarak and the men around him Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.96,0:13:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,misunderstood. The reason that he's in Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.90,0:13:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sharm el-Sheikh, hoping to buy a single floor through apartment Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.57,0:13:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in one of the towers being built in Mecca, no doubt Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.86,0:14:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason that that happened is that Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.30,0:14:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Mubarak and his advisers thought that Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.18,0:14:07.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you turn off the Internet, you turn off Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.71,0:14:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Internet generation. Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.62,0:14:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was wrong. Because, in fact, it isn't Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.91,0:14:18.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a particular system of telecoms, Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.51,0:14:21.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a particular social networking structure, Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.65,0:14:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a particular database of 'twats' ... or twuts.. Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.85,0:14:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or twoots, or whatever they call them Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.98,0:14:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not the technology that makes it work Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.67,0:14:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's that human beings have figured out Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.74,0:14:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something about society if they grow up Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.10,0:14:43.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the 'Net. Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.15,0:14:45.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most human beings, most of the time, Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.28,0:14:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in most social contexts, believe that the Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.74,0:14:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,social network valuable to them is the people Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.02,0:14:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they see every day, and the people with whom Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.97,0:14:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have strong emotional connections. Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.26,0:14:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how most people, almost all the time, Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.52,0:15:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think about the social world. Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.44,0:15:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's because we evolved for millions of years to think that way. Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.60,0:15:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As parts of small groups of a few dozen Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.71,0:15:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ground-dwelling primates. Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.80,0:15:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our neurology evolved for that Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.24,0:15:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our social heuristics evolved for that Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.05,0:15:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we think that the social network robust Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.72,0:15:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enough to support us, is the people Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.27,0:15:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see around us and the people we care about Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.94,0:15:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who care about us back. Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.52,0:15:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the generation of people growing up Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.65,0:15:39.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inside the 'Net now knows, knows viscerally, knows all the time Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.11,0:15:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a matter of habit, is that the social network Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.99,0:15:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is robust enough to change the world Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.17,0:15:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around you includes the thousands of people Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.03,0:15:49.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't live near, and with whom you don't Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.79,0:15:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have any direct emotional connection, Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.25,0:15:55.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but are the people who believe what you Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.11,0:15:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believe, and want to do something about it, too. Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.52,0:16:01.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we learned at the end of the 20th Century Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.65,0:16:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first in Poland, and then in other places, is that Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.80,0:16:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what makes revolution is solidarity. Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.32,0:16:10.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ability of people who do not live near Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.78,0:16:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one another in social or geographic space Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.03,0:16:16.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who do not have immediate personal bonds Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.89,0:16:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,binding them together, to percieve the ability Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.07,0:16:22.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to self-organize for the sudden achievement Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.83,0:16:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of deeply felt social ends Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.48,0:16:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the network does -- what life with the network does is to Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.49,0:16:34.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teach humans that the cost of making solidarity Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.07,0:16:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has gone way down. Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.23,0:16:40.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That it is easier and faster to make solidarity Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.01,0:16:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than it has ever been before, and if you take Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.78,0:16:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bunch of people who know that lesson, and Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.14,0:16:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you turn the network off, they go right on making Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.09,0:16:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,solidarity the best way they know how. Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.62,0:16:52.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They drop leaflets in the street, they make Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.51,0:16:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrier pigeons, they have phone trees. Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.64,0:16:57.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They do whatever it is, because the real skill Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.71,0:17:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being learned by humanity is the skill of Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.56,0:17:04.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self-organization, and what we're seeing right Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.46,0:17:05.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now, today, in the Maghreb, right now, Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.70,0:17:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right today, right now, is that solidarity made Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.76,0:17:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by self-organization is stronger than machine Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.13,0:17:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gun bullets. Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.63,0:17:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All over the world tyranny likes to say "the Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.89,0:17:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alternative to me is chaos," and all around the Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.97,0:17:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,world everybody can see that isn't true. Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.06,0:17:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what we're going to do is we're going to make Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.29,0:17:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cheap things, and we're going to fill them Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.66,0:17:32.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Free Software, and we're going to put them Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.03,0:17:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in everybody's hands, and we're going to say Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.44,0:17:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Here. That makes solidarity. Use it. Be well. Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.32,0:17:40.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be Free" Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.69,0:17:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to work. Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.36,0:17:45.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There isn't any reason to be on the side Dialogue: 0,0:17:45.70,0:17:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Press, just as there isn't any reason Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.30,0:17:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be on the side of power. It's simple, now. Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.83,0:17:57.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Power has moved to the edge of the network, Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.45,0:17:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it will continue to do that for a generation Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.15,0:17:59.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to come. Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.19,0:18:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will make a grand revolution, and it will Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.38,0:18:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,change the fate of billions of human beings. Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.98,0:18:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will make ignorance obsolete, and when it Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.51,0:18:10.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,makes ignorance obsolete, it will change the Dialogue: 0,0:18:10.39,0:18:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,future of the human condition. Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.66,0:18:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Press isn't going to do that. Power isn't Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.49,0:18:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to do that. Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.93,0:18:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are going to do that. Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.88,0:18:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The technology to empower people to do that Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.53,0:18:26.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exists already. All it needs is a little bit Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.29,0:18:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of refinement. Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.74,0:18:34.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're the guys who refine it. We don't seek Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.09,0:18:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,money. We don't seek power. We only want Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.02,0:18:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to share. Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.22,0:18:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone wants to talk about Internet freedom, Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.40,0:18:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except us. Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.38,0:18:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't want to talk about Internet freedom, Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.02,0:18:49.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we just want to do it. Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.95,0:18:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Join us. Dialogue: 0,0:18:51.48,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.