Lawrence Lessig: Thank you very much. It's extremely cool to be here.
It's just about as cool as when I spoke at Pixar.
I think of these two as being highlights of my career (check).
So, thank you very much for having me.
I have two small ideas I want to use as an introduction to an argument,
about the nature of access to scientific knowledge in the context of the internet,
and use that argument as a step towards a plea about what we should do.
So here is the first idea.
I want to call it the "White-effect".
And I name that after Justice Byron White, justice of the US Supreme Court,
appointed by John F. Kennedy - here he is in 1962