Framing: Week 7

Anderson stated, “In the digital realm you can try to keep Free at bay with laws and locks, but eventually the force of economic gravity will win.”  If this statement is true, in 100 years will there be a need for educational facilities like Elon or will there be enough free information and programs online to completely change the educational system?  Will teachers follow the same path that print journalists are currently on?

While Anderson is resolute in the fact that traditional journalism will cease to exist as we know it, I am skeptical.  Anderson does not take into account the professionalism of journalists.  I think people will always turn to major networks for news because professionals report on it.  Will the freedom of information trump professional journalists?

If you take the arguments presented in Free on an international level, what are the effects of free information on areas of the world like China and North Korea?  Piracy has already introduced many in China to Hollywood films, so what will happen when information begins to trickle past the government’s grips.  (Because as more and more information becomes more easily available, the government won’t be able to block it all.)

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