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.
Data visualization improves our ability to tell powerful stories about our understanding of the world. Modern tools become platforms for dynamic exploration, allowing anybody...
Our decreasing ability to interpret the world makes us insecure, anguished, and vulnerable. If we meet somebody who says “Don't worry. Yes, there are...
The ideal of sustainability can’t be seen as a static goal, which represents the end of our efforts, once reached. In practice, all complex...
