Milton Friedman
I hate Wikipedia for the same reason I love it; because it is a despotic time waster.
I somehow navigated myself to this: Free to Choose, from this blog. I had to go back through my history to figure out how I arrived there. Once there, I spent several hours watching the Free Market PBS programs produced by the economist Milton Friedman.
Spore–> Spore Video Game–> Panspermia–> Circumstantial Evidence–> Mens Rea–> Tort–> Lawrence Lessig–> The Future of Ideas–> Legal Affairs.com–> Lessig.org–> Just because I’m not working doesn’t mean you can’t–> Lessig Wiki–> and finally Free to Choose
I read the first half of the book “The Future of Ideas” a few years back when working at eBay. I remember it painting a bleak and frightening future. I think the second half of the book probably included Lessig’s optimistic views of how to curb the tide of corporate power. I am usually reading so many books at a time that with my short attention span I only finish about half the books I start.
September 5th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
I wholeheartedly agree. Wikipedia is the only thing that gets me through work some days. Without it I would have been to bored to work and quit a hundred times by now.
Looking at my internet history for yesterday, I visited 123 Wikipedia pages. I counted. I started reading about Nostradamus and somehow ended up reading about the U.N. And somewhere in between I learned about the British idiom, “at sixes and sevens.”
Two hours later, I too had to backtrack to figure out how I got there. I realized I had’t even read one line on the initial page I looked up before clicking on another link.
Today I’ve only visited 18 Wikipedia pages. Don’t tell my boss.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
I thought, in my schizophrenia, all of my knowledge was being installed through radiowaves while I walked around. Come to find out it was Wikipedia all along. (and this blog)…I checked my history. I guess I sort of blackout while I am doing homework.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
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November 13th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
What?