Operating System is the core software that powers a machine. Lessig is making an analogy of our society.
Professor Lessig is a highly respected figure in USA due to his tremendous effort to promote free culture movement in USA and around the world. The purpose is to make a better and freer world for innovation so that it drives the progress of our civilization. Around one year ago, he decided to devote his next ten years to the research of corruption, as he realized that in order to promote free culture, it is essential to change the policies that hamper the free culture movement. Since then, he has made several public lectures on corruption and formed the Change Congress Movement. The following is his fourth and latest version of the Change Congress Lecture. I would say it is much more interesting than Jobs’ iPhone 3G keynote. In the end of this lecture, he mentioned that Obama was taking his proposal of independence seriously. This is likely the beginning of a major upgrade of the operation system of USA, I think.
I believe this lecture will inspire the next generation of chinese as well, although the OS of China is far behind from that of USA. Here is a video:
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