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.
What is the value of knowledge? And how can you both acquire and then deploy knowledge in order to leverage that value, create more...
I recently went through the process of renewing my driving license, which made me think of two important components of our future infrastructure. One,...
For the past several decades we have been digitizing our information flow, and lately we have started digitizing the world at large interconnecting things...
