There is so much to post about while attending the TED conference. I’m swamped catching up with friends and having the most interesting conversations. There is so much to post, I’m not going to try to cover it all right now, but will try a few bite size postings throughout the next couple of days and week.

I coudn’t not post this great video that my old friend (he was an advisory board member at Zero-Knowledge Systems) Larry Lessig just showed as part of his presentation on creating a read/write culture.

Fanatastic presentation. A few highlight comments from Larry,

  • We can’t kill the remix culture, only criminalize it.
  • We live in the age of prohibition where we are teaching our children that epxressing themselves using others media (remix) is illegal but widespread leading to a dilution of the respect of law.
  • It won’t last. The read / write culture that our technology has created now empowers today’s youth not to be just consumers, but creators and we can’t go back.

Larry showed a few great examples of the creative remixing culture that I wanted to share.

Hilarious. This video was done by the artist Johan Soderberg.

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On Thu 8 Mar 2007.