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Do media conglomerates produce monopolies in thought? Can
principles from open source software be applied to resist such a
closing? In his recently resurfaced and pointedly relevant 1943
speech "The Crisis in Public Opinion," Canadian political economist
Harold Innis predicts that the centralization of government and
media will become a liability to freedom of thought in Western
Civilization. No One Knows Everything considers how to counter what
Innis called "monopolies of knowledge" by looking at the history of
the press since 1850 alongside open source projects like Linux,
Apache, Wikipedia and others. In doing so, this book hopes to widen
our understanding of the revolutionary open source process that has
changed copyright law and which continues to define the Internet,
quietly but comprehensively, to this day. This book is intended for
bloggers, communications professionals, and the open source
curious.
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