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.
We live in glorious times. 1000 years from now people will look back and wonder: “How was it to live in the 21st century?”...
We have to maintain and nurture the curiosity we naturally exhibited as children. Even if we are bombarded by messages that want us to...
For the past several decades we have been digitizing our information flow, and lately we have started digitizing the world at large interconnecting things...
