Society wants to incentivise creativity and private enterprise.
Copyrights patents and trademarks have emerged as a protection of what we today call intellectual property.
There are plenty of examples when these serve a useful purpose, however excessive extensions to the expiration of copyright as well as harmful patent trolls show the negative side of this arrangement.
Open source software and hardware has emerged as a powerful alternative that is compatible with profit making but also with building a Commons benefiting everybody inclusively.
In the 21st century, all regulations and all governance should either be or aim to be digital, as soon as possible. What does that...
The names and labels that we give to things, allow us to concentrate our attention on their nature, guided by the intuition and the...
Even if you are not a science fiction author, you are now living in a science fictional world, where your daily life is unthinkable....