Seuraava renessanssi - Jyrki Kasvi tekijänoikeuksista.
Perinteisillä tekijänoikeuksilla rahaa tekevä sisältöteollisuus on valitettavasti keskittynyt vastustamaan teknologian kehitystä sen sijaan että se olisi etsinyt uusia toimintatapoja. Mieleen tulee Tanskan muinainen kuningas Knuut II Suuri, joka antoi kantaa valtaistuimensa meren rantaan ja käski nousevaa vuorovettä pysähtymään sen sijaan että olisi opetellut uimaan.
"I helped my parents with chores, so I don't have to help my friends." We have a baseline sense of what society considers appropriate, moral behavior, and we have a sense of where we fit in that. If we do something that is better than our norm, we balance it out with something a bit devious: it's a zero-sum game.
The point is this: we are finely tuned survival machines that have evolved to survive in a niche on one particular planet in one particular epoch. Even our own planet is unimaginably hostile to our kind of life for most of its history. And while survival outside that niche is possible with the assistance of a horrendously complex toolkit we call "civilization", we've yet to try it somewhere where we can't count on the basics (free oxygen and triple point water).
Prof Nutt said drug laws should not be influenced "petty party politics" -- "There's no point in having drug laws that are meaningless and arbitrary just because politicians find it useful and expedient occasionally to come down hard on drugs. That's undermining the whole purpose of the drugs laws."
My husband has a virtual girlfriend - Love Plus, koska todellisuus ei riitä.