 Have some twizzlers and pretzel sticks. That's actually a good symbol, I guess, of the culture at Berkman, right? Like the the pretzel jar that everybody can get a bite out of. When, you know, people ask, what is the Berkman Center? All it is is a community of people. It's a human network of scholars and students and activists who are interested in the future of the Internet. The most remarkable set of Internet scholars and scholars of passion in the world. Today in a lovely yellow building on the second floor of 23 Everett Street. It's very intimate and cozy. It's always too small in physical space, but capacious in virtual sense. A typical day of the Berkman Center. Lots of people energetically coming through the stairs into the conference rooms. Often find yourself sucked into like really interesting conversations with people. I think it's also some moments of quiet and contemplation. Not one day is like any other. Today is Tuesday, which means we don't get much done by way of traditional work. We don't. There's too much going on. There are too many people. There are too many events. There's lots of sandwiches. Our Tuesday lunch series is sort of one of the, it's a kind of a flagship element of the Berkman Center. And it's very much reflects our character and values in some respects and really is about community. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the Berkman Center Tuesday luncheon series. It's not just informal. It's also very rigorous. And the idea is that you're going to be in there with some of the smartest folks around in this space and they're really going to push you and challenge you and hopefully help. My goal for being here is to get ideas about how the heck we began to make the system work a little bit better. So a lot of collaborations arise Tuesday talks. Internet will change the healthcare system. Thank you so much. Can I prevail on you? Oh, the library. Can you uh, insert that? Send out the filter. What is the Berkman Center? What does the Berkman Center do? Self on an iPhone. Self on. That's pretty much what I read out there. We focus our research in three broad areas. Now these three aren't mutually exclusive and in fact they're hugely overlapping. That's the whole point. Law, technology, innovation and knowledge. To help people understand their legal rights in online expression, times people say, why did you come up with this crazy term bad wear? What's wrong with malware? What's wrong with spyware? The relationship between internet and civic activity. Governments are not transparent about what they filter, which then gives us the role of going to find you out exactly what they do in reporting that. What are the mechanisms that promote cooperation in online spaces? And technology, law and development. We're trying to create a commons where law professors can share their educational materials with each other. So we talk to kids about a range of issues, kind of how they're using different technologies, how they're understanding. That's what the clinical program is all about, is letting students do this real work for real clients, but in a very structured setting. Students are part of everything we do at the Berkman Center. We simply wouldn't want to do what we do without them and we probably couldn't either. And since everything with Berkman is like incredibly connected to one another, one project led to another. This is a fun and wacky place, but also a place that does, I think, the most serious and important scholarship in our field. So it's a combination of a very high spirit, but also a very high commitment to the best understanding and the best analysis of the internet's impact on society, whether that's about the law or business or public policy or computing or divinity for that matter. I think if any element of the Berkman Center sets it apart, more than anything else, it's the nature of the fellows who come into the Berkman Center. We're here. That's the chair, the chair. On the data collection side, it would mean having to use some sort of an identifier. If we had the best practices, we would want to err on the side of telling people too much about what's happening and making sure that the first order concern is how do you get more people to use it and then worry about why are they not going to use it rather than vice versa. I just want to bring in sort of a thread that's going on in the RFC at the moment. Is that in real time what you're actually doing? If it just says that. Which speed hard drives. Because that's a very central question to Yale High Research and the My Research. Thanks so much, all. Okay then. They're officially over. Well, I'm here in the Geek Cave, which is actually a total misnomer. This is probably the sunniest, most airy room in the entire place. Well, you know what? We've realized that actually geekness puts up a defensive shield around this room that you only come here when you have a problem. And if you're in here, you always have a problem. Yeah, I can see like grass and trees. There's a squirrel that lives right here in front of me and I don't actually communicate with it, but it does jump up and down and do things. There's just always stuff going on. We want to push conversations forward and we want to have interesting dialogue and we want to hear about the tools or the research that's really changing the field. Okay, so we're here at the Ames Court Room at Harvard Law School where at any moment Professor Lessig will make his appearance, Elvis will be in the building and he'll be ready to proceed. It is with great pleasure that we welcome Lawrence Lessig back to the Berkman Center and to Harvard Law School, Professor Lessig. Thank you for coming home. We not law as some kind of silver bullet, but law as at least one tool, a comparable tool that might on the margin improve the success of any particular solution by one or two percent to take this impossible problem and make it just one or two percent better in conjunction with these other technologies. It's a very organic kind of growth that comes from below and within and it's extremely entrepreneurial and new ideas spring up and grow out and sometimes get spun off. This bottom up orientation to the center has come from the top down. It's the leadership that is inspired and allowed the grassroots to take hold here. Well, we have lots of different types of folks in our community. We are tied by certain commonalities and one of them is that we want whatever we do to be relevant in the world. I love that the place has gotten bigger and more ambitious. Ultimately though, we haven't lost the spirit of what Miles Bergman our founding benefactor called smart people in a hallway where people can come and talk and hang out and think seriously about the issues of internet as they affect society.