How the internet transformed education and knowledge in the 21st century.
Peter B. Kaufman is a visionary of the video age who, from his perch at Columbia and now MIT, sees what he calls “the Monsterverse” for what it is—an Internet dominated by purely commercial interests—and how, just maybe, we can change that.
A publisher, teacher, and videographer, Kaufman describes how recapturing control over moving images and recorded sound can transform our online engagement from one that is stubbornly unsatisfying, aggravates inequities, and even facilitates totalitarianism, to one that can free our minds and transform education—in much the same way that the Encyclopédie and the Enlightenment helped European society modernize and democratize in the 18th century.
He reminds us how the control of publishing, broadcast media, and knowledge itself has evolved—and devolved. He looks at copyright law and…
