“[geeks] are a public, an independent public that has the ability to build, maintain, and modify itself, that is not restricted to the activities of speaking, writing, arguing, or protesting.” Kelty explains that the recursive public doesn’t live and play by the same rules. There is a difference in culture and ways of communication. Creating a scheme of communicating through music, art, blogs, and through all this individuality is developed and explored. Kelty expresses the knowledge that is obtained by geeks through exploring what they can do with the Internet and how the can make it more recursive an public.

The idea of escaping the powers of control through by using the internet as a means of information, sharing, and expanding knowledge to everyone is a new idea that has not yet been harnessed. Kelty explains that without controls on what the recursive public is capable of, people can educate people about everything ranging from music to scholarly insights. Its only when the government steps in a breaks this cycle that people entirely realize the widespread affects of the Internet. Who didn’t have or know about Napster? When the government stepped in, geeks found new programs and ways of sharing music, and there are programs out there today that perform the same function as Napster but only they’re free.

When controls are set, geeks are only advancing themselves by finding new ways around and reinventing the Internet time and time again. Where would we be if there wasn’t free will to constantly be connecting with other people and discovering new creations arise from the Internet and geeks in a coffee shop. I probably wouldn’t be posting on this blog.

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