suggested the happy thought that if life in cyberspace got bad, we
could always "drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome"-like simply flip a
switch and be back home. Turn off the modem, unplug the computer, and
-any troubles that exist in that space wouldn't "affect" us anymore.
+any troubles that exist in <emphasis>that</emphasis> space wouldn't
+"affect" us anymore.
</para>
<para>
Pogue might have been right in 1999—I'm skeptical, but maybe.
free software movement<footnote>
<para>
Richard M. Stallman, Free Software, Free Societies 57 (Joshua Gay, ed. 2002).
-</para></footnote>), but "free" as in "free speech," "free markets," "free
-trade," "free enterprise," "free will," and "free elections." A free
-culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this
-directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so
+</para></footnote>), but "free" as in "free speech," "free markets,"
+"free trade," "free enterprise," "free will," and "free elections." A
+free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does
+this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so
indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that
-follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the
-control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property,
-just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The
-opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture"—a culture in
-which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful,
-or of creators from the past.
+follow-on creators and innovators remain <emphasis>as free as
+possible</emphasis> from the control of the past. A free culture is
+not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market
+in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a
+"permission culture"—a culture in which creators get to create
+only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the
+past.
</para>
<para>
If we understood this change, I believe we would resist it. Not "we"
importantly, its power to disable critical thought by policy makers
and citizens. There has never been a time in our history when more of
our "culture" was as "owned" as it is now. And yet there has never
-been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of
-culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now.
+been a time when the concentration of power to control the
+<emphasis>uses</emphasis> of culture has been as unquestioningly
+accepted as it is now.
</para>
<para>
The puzzle is, Why? Is it because we have come to understand a truth