Venture capitalist Brad Burnham on the proposed SOPA / PIPA legislation. Is the controversy really about free speech, or is it just another showdown between rich and powerful Hollywood, and even richer and more powerful Silicon Valley? How will SOPA and PIPA affect everyone? http://bigthink.com/ideas/42035

Kristina Höök is Professor in Human-Machine Interaction at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, a post she has held since 2003. She is also a part-time employee at SICS, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. Kristina was a founder of the Mobile Life Centre in 2007, now some 50 researchers who work with corporate and governmental partners including Microsoft Research, Ericsson, Nokia, TeliaSonera and the City of Stockholm. Her research focuses on bodily and emotional interaction.

“INTERNET RISING is a digi-documentary investigating the evolving relationships between the Internet and collective consciousness of humanity. It provokes many questions about ancient and modern paradoxes of life, its pleasures and pains… and the gray area contrasts in between - but most of all it is meant to be an inspiring conversation starter; a launchpad for future remixes of collective consciousness. It also has a bit of humorous satire to give our *overloaded* big DATA _information_ dump() brains a little break from the daily race

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity". The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement."

Defending the Net - Mikko H Hypponen

When will we be able to enter a room and create an imaginary scenario so realistic that it seems as if we are really there? Sooner than you think, says Dr. Kaku.

A visionary and optimistic thinker examines the tension between privacy and publicness that is transforming how we form communities, create identities, do business, and live our lives. The internet, Jarvis argues, will change business, society, and life as profoundly as Gutenberg's invention, shifting power from old institutions to us all. Based on extensive interviews, Public Parts introduces us to the men and women building a new industry based on sharing. Some of them have become household names—Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Google's Eric Schmidt, and Twitter's Evan Williams.

Brandon Kessler, founder and CEO of ChallengePost (http://challengepost.com), explores the success of challenging communities big and small to make the world better: defeating censorship in Iran, crafting healthy recipes that appeal to kids, using data to improve a city, and more.

Tom Woolley is Curator of New Media at the National Media Museum. Recent curatorial projects include developing Life Online, a new set of galleries that focus on the history and social impact of the internet.

In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control? She believes the internet is headed for a "Magna Carta" moment when citizens around the world demand that their governments protect free speech and their right to connection.