Brazil

02005-01-31 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

In 20 minutes, I’m getting in a car to go to the airport to fly to Sao Paolo, to fly to Chicago, to fly to San Francisco, to get in a car to go home. It has been an insanely intense few days in this astonishing place.

This morning’s panel was packed in what seemed to be an old factory. The room was overflowing with at least 1,500 people, and a panel of 5. Manuel Castells began, with a careful and extremely interesting diagnosis of the net’s development. I then described the remix culture culture has been (legal and free) and the remix culture culture could be (amazing and diverse) and the blocks to that new culture coming about (law). Christian Alhert told the story of the BBC’s Creative Archive. And JP Barlow gave one of the most intense and powerful speeches I’ve ever seen him deliver. This place is personal to him.

Then Gil spoke. Needless to say, the warm up acts were just that. He electrified the audience, delivering a written speech as poetry slam. He promised more support for free software, and free culture. And he again embraced the Creative Commons movement in Brazil, which is exploding everywhere here. Again he took questions. Again he answered critics, directly, and passionately.
(Via Lessig Blog.)

You should read the whole post. Brazil is making a lot of the right steps to become a powerhouse in the near future – one or two decades, if it takes that long. You should also check out this post.

1 Comment

  1. Flavio

    It is always exciting to see posts like this – particularly if you are from Brazil like me.

    Here is an interesting link to a webcast speech by Lula (President of Brazil) in Davos at the World Economic Forum just a few days ago http://clients.world-television.com/worldeconomicforum_annualmeeting2005/_S13926.asp.

    Funny that OL mentions the fact that Brazil will be a powerhouse in a couple of decades or less. The truth is that a typical joke in Brazil is that Brazil is the country of tomorrow, always :-) . . .maybe tomorrow is not so far away. . .

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