think or thwim

Last June Lawrence Lessig announced that he was walking away from his last 10 years of work on copyright law and net neutrality to focus his next 10 years on political corruption. This is his first lecture on that new subject.

He worried me when he started by apologizing for wasting the audience’s time with a speech about something he doesn’t know about yet. That humility was unwarranted. He knows an enormous amount, and it is a terrific presentation.