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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
And when us elite are all living the high life on the Riviera, and those peasants are all in their 3rd world hovels, the world will finally be a better place. Long live the Communications Revolution.
May I suggest another book on the MR reading list: Jonathan Zittrain's The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. (And it is available as an e-book.) It makes some strong and valid points about the ultimately unsustainable nature of the combination of the web and the computer as it exists today. That nature is at the heart of the reasons we are even discussing copyright issues, much less e-books, and I think may be more to the point here than The Rational Individual. |
I've read about 80 pages of "The Future Of The Internet..." before I got sidetracked by other things in my life. Those 80 pages could have been condensed into 30 pages with no loss. I'll make a point to finish it later today and/or tommorrow.
Where did I say
anything about the world being a better place? I'm a "forest" person, not a "tree" person. I mention
The Rational Individual because it's a good "forest" book about the forest where the "tree" of I.P. piracy is. What I see, I analyse, like the frustrated scientist I am. Doesn't mean I like the results....
(And when I get a flippant remark, I'll be flippant right back...)