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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Internet 2.0, but more likely 5.0 will not allow you to sell goods in the traditional manner. You will be allowed to upload.
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So an author will have less control over their artistic product than they do now?
Already sounding like a bad thing. All I see in that kind of future is the reinvention of the printing press, and then having to hide their illegal printed copies…
Sounds familiar. Read much Ray Bradbury?
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
The price of your goods will then be determined algorithmically by demand.
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So, no 100% free book society, because there are prices involved.
And how would this work exactly? Few sales mean the price stays low, and as it becomes popular the price gets higher? Or does slow 'sales' mean starting at a higher price?
Who decides how low is low, or how high is high? And does the New Internet take a cut to pay for it's own upkeep? Machines cost money to run. And who publicizes the new books? Lots of competition out there, how is anyone going to find what they want to read in the new stuff, so that the author gets more sales?
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
The network will also retain ownership over everything that is uploaded to it and send you royalty checks every quarter. (The network is a very strong AI at this point, it's all in the literature)
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So there still is Copyright. You can't retain complete control or ownership without specifying that there is and owner, and who it is, and define their rights and how they can protect it.
So your argument against Copyright just went out the window. Sounds just like an electronic Publisher, and how they gain control of an author's work by gaining Copyright and then selling the work on the open market, cutting the author in by the payment of advances and later by royalties, the amount being determined by the agreement by the author and publisher's contract.
And I wouldn't hold your breath on the AI thing. I've been around computers and knew some basic programming when everything entered on a computer was what the owner typed in. We're still 99% closer to computers being toasters with fancy, on-screen buttons than anything AI.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
What exactly do you think the virtual space is? It is the collective consciousness of every user, everything contained within is owned by all.
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What, exactly do you mean my "Virtual Space"?
In computer terms, you mean to say "Virtual Reality" or "Virtual Environment". Which is defined as…
a computer-generated, three-dimensional representation of a setting in which the user of the technology perceives themselves to be and within which interaction takes place; also called virtual landscape, virtual space, virtual world
Which has nothing to do with "Collective Consciousness", nor shared ownership of anything.
If that's what you mean, then you don't understand what you're talking about. Not even close. Not a clue. If you mean something else, you need to explain how you define what you mean by "Virtual Space".
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
The network is inadequate because it is unfinished.
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I seriously doubt it will ever really be finished. We enjoy tweaking things too much. And we have yet to produce anything really perfect, anywhere.
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Originally Posted by Giggleton
But basically, once you show your work to another you have given up control about how it is presented and such, we've known this for thousands of years.
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I don't think we 'know' that at all. Creators have no control over how their work is seen and interpreted, whether it's admired/liked, abhor/hate or all the levels of disinterest in between.
But, no, I don't think control is given up. It just changes form and rules as time goes by.