Thure:
I am definitely going to do some more reading up on this guy. His interview links to his home page, where there are posted a lot of his academic papers and the like. ( santafe.edu ) His ideas are very thought provoking. Two things he does need to tone down a little are the air of righteousness and the thinly-veiled ad hominum attacks. He clearly does not like what Krugman wrote in Slate, for example.
He basically says in the interview that his way of thinking is The Truth (or, as Lawrence Lessig would say, an undisputed discourse), at least in the world of academia. Then he accuses his opponents, especially on the libertarian side, of being "ideological" and "members of the flat-Earth society." If we want to carry on the debate at that level, his opponents could just as easily say that he's "ideological," too, on the liberal side, and that he's one of those pointy-headed academic types looking for a guinea pig on which to test out his theories in the "real world." Again, that's if the debate plays out at that level. At a higher level, his ideas are extremely stimulating.
But hey, I kinda like that! Microsoft is just a guinea pig in DOJ's latest experiment in social engineering.;) |
