Jimmy Wales on a dozen things that WILL be free

This is a September 28 post on Ethan Zukkerman's blog - and is about 12 free things that the free culture movement is working on with the help of projects like the Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, WikiCities etc.

"Jimmy Wales, international man of mystery, father of Wikipedia and non-resident Berkman fellow joined his fellow Berkmaniacs in Cambridge yesterday, and filled us in on his new intellectual project, “10 Things that Will be Free”.

Jimmy’s list is inspried by David Hilbert’s address to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, 1900, where he proposed 23 critical unsolved problems in mathematics. This list was enormously influential in shaping mathematical research over the 20th century, and most of the problems have been resolved. (Hilbert’s 23 Problems should not be confused with Jay-Z’s 99 Problems which, though also influential, have had less of an influence on academic research.)

Jimmy’s list is, like Hilbert’s, an outline of what we don’t know how to do yet in the world of free culture, and a call to action. It’s also, to a certain extent, a prediction of the future - Jimmy makes the point that it’s 10 things that will be free in the next ten to twenty five years, not should be free."

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