Oh, man, I do miss being a techno-utopian. It was the nineties, I had just acquired a 28.8k modem in high school, my teachers were warning me about the risks of algorithmically selected, personalized information and I was all “free the information, man” and “people will figure it out” and “the advantages of free information access outweigh the negatives of the technology used to get there”.
And then I was so wrong. It’s not even funny how wrong I was. Like, sitting on the smoldering corpse of democracy and going “well, that happened” wrong.
But hey, I’m sure we’ll mess it up even further so you can get there as well.
For the record, I don’t mean to defend the status quo with that. I agree that copyright and intellectual property are broken and should be fundamentally reformulated. Just… not with a libertarian, fully unregulated framework in mind.
Hi fellow traveler. I think you and I took a similar path to get here except I started with a 33.6k modem in high school and the catch phrase I remember is “Information wants to be free.” What’s your thought on copyright reform? Somewhere along the lines of 25 years and non-renewable? How you feeling about the concept of software/algorithm patents? Talking about stuff like this is reminding me of /. :)
Oh, man, I do miss being a techno-utopian. It was the nineties, I had just acquired a 28.8k modem in high school, my teachers were warning me about the risks of algorithmically selected, personalized information and I was all “free the information, man” and “people will figure it out” and “the advantages of free information access outweigh the negatives of the technology used to get there”.
And then I was so wrong. It’s not even funny how wrong I was. Like, sitting on the smoldering corpse of democracy and going “well, that happened” wrong.
But hey, I’m sure we’ll mess it up even further so you can get there as well.
For the record, I don’t mean to defend the status quo with that. I agree that copyright and intellectual property are broken and should be fundamentally reformulated. Just… not with a libertarian, fully unregulated framework in mind.
Hi fellow traveler. I think you and I took a similar path to get here except I started with a 33.6k modem in high school and the catch phrase I remember is “Information wants to be free.” What’s your thought on copyright reform? Somewhere along the lines of 25 years and non-renewable? How you feeling about the concept of software/algorithm patents? Talking about stuff like this is reminding me of /. :)