Excerpted from an important article on technology transfer strategies by Vivek Wadhwa (in TechCrunch): “Most countries outside the U.S. and Europe lie in a Patent-Free Zone—where companies have not filed patents because they believe there is no market for their goods. So this intellectual property is available to anyone in those nations who can find… Continue reading
Date archives "August 2010"
Arduino the Documentary
TRAILER Arduino: The Documentary from gnd on Vimeo. Something to look forward to and its CC licensed too. from – http://arduino.cc/blog/?p=643 “Laboral Centro de Arte, Spain, has commissioned the creation of a documentary about Arduino. The filmmakers are almost done with it and today they released the trailer to it. A lot of the footage… Continue reading
The distributist critique of wage labour
Originally written by Maurice Reckitt and excerpted from the Distributist Review: “The fundamental basis of the revolutionary case against Capitalism is not that it makes the few rich and the many poor though this is true; not that it creates social conditions which are a disgrace and an amazement in a civilised community though this… Continue reading
John Medaille’s book review: a progressive/conservative interpretation of how markets work
A review of a book review, via Tikkun’s Jason Hamza van Boom. * Book: Robert E. Prasch, How Markets Work: Supply, Demand and the ‘Real World “Over at The Distributist Review, John Médaille offers a few suggestions on this in the course of his review of a new book by Robert E. Prasch, How Markets… Continue reading
A spiritual interpretation of cloud computing and network consciousness
Steven Vedro, author of Digital Dharma, continues his meditations on the link between technological and spiritual development: “In earlier posts, I discussed how the coupling of electricity with our nervous system started the process of (in Marshal McLuhan’s words) “outering” our neurons, leading to the leap into “network consciousness” made possible by the Internet and… Continue reading
Video: Capitalism – illustrated
“The folks at Cognitive Media took 10 minutes of David Harvey’s marxist analysis of the financial crisis and created this entertaining information visualization. Harvey’s full lecture is worth watching, too.” via social design notes
Why net neutrality is so crucially important
Good video summary:
Analogue Copying and the Relevance of Patents
A contribution from Eric Hunting: In two recent articles from Computerworld UK (http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2961 & http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2971&pn=1), writer Glynn Moody discusses the implications of digital fabrication for manufacturing’s intellectual property models and gets into some very interesting debates with some of his readers. Moody’s general assertion is that the advent of analogue copying will have the effect… Continue reading
P2P Medicine: How Patients and Doctors can collaborate to improve medicine
The July 2010 issue of Gordon Cook’s Report on Internet Protocol, Technology, Economics, and Policy examines Dr David Zakim’s Clinical Expert Operating System, an internet-based application that could literally change the future of medicine. Dr Zakim’s aim is to bring patients and doctors together in a common effort to arrive at a proper diagnosis so… Continue reading
Network Genetics, Network Evolution
Genetics and evolution are complex and inter-linked subjects. That’s not to say the lay-person can’t understand them – the basic principles under which they work are simple enough – it’s just that once you start to focus your view down into the details the complexity emerges. Let me give you an example. Eye colour. The… Continue reading