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.
Technological change not only accelerates. It is jolting.What are the consequences of this jolting technological change? Several years ago, I concluded decentralization was the...
For a long time now technology made it possible for teams whose members are not physically together to collaborate effectively. There are multi billion...
Traveling to foreign countries, to experience their language and culture, the different ways of living, is accessible to an increasing number of people. My...
