The 8 Principles of Technorealism Technology is not neutral. The Internet is revolutionary, but not Utopian. Government has an important role to play on the electronic frontier. Information is not knowledge. Wiring the schools will not save them.
Information wants to be protected.
The public owns the airwaves and the public should benefit from their use. Understanding technology should be an essential component of global citizenship. Recently, the Berkman Center sponsored an afternoon mini-conference, at which a dozen leading technology critics converged with several Law School professors to discuss, define, and defend technorealism, using the Principles document as their starting point. But the mini-conference may not have further defined what technorealism is as much as outlined what it isn't. Law Professor Larry Lessig, who moderated the conference's first round of discussions, pressed in this instance for the panelists to state whether they were for or against hooking up schools to the Internet.