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!/div>
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./div>
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!/div>
"... 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./div>
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