The Structural Conditions of Human Flourishing

Within U.S. legal and policy circles, the discourse of informationpolicy reform has been organized principally around the themes of access to knowledge and network neutrality. Global discourses of information-policy reform are organized around parallel themes of access and connectivity. Each of those themes has contributed powerful insights to our understanding of the principles that should inform information law and policy. Human flourishing requires not only physical well-being but also psychological and social wellbeing, including the capacity for cultural and political participation. The accessto-knowledge movement reminds us that enjoying the latter goods requires meaningful access to the resources of a common culture. The networkneutrality movement reminds us that in the networked information age, access and architecture are inseparably intertwined, and that power over the technical conditions of access should be closely scrutinized.