The patent system, like Bradbury's writing, exists not to promote the future but to delay it.
Consider: we've been people a hundred thousand years or so. We've had agriculture about fourteen thousand years. We've had bronze about five thousand years We've had steel about three thousand years We've had aviation a couple of centuries We've had rocketry and computers within living memory
At the rate the rate of change is increasing, it's clear:
The Patent System is the only thing holding off the Singularity!
Yeah, and you know what Amazon and Google and Apple and the rest did about _that_ behavior -- illegally conspired in secret not to hire people who tried to hop.
As Ray Bradbury said about writing
The patent system, like Bradbury's writing, exists not to promote the future but to delay it.
Consider: we've been people a hundred thousand years or so.
We've had agriculture about fourteen thousand years.
We've had bronze about five thousand years
We've had steel about three thousand years
We've had aviation a couple of centuries
We've had rocketry and computers within living memory
At the rate the rate of change is increasing, it's clear:
The Patent System is the only thing holding off the Singularity!
"... and job hopping"
watched video; clicked URL; downloaded Lessig's free book -- reading it now
Seeing that Lessig's book is free to download is a good sign.
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