Property and Theft.
Another example of a dominant paradigm struggling with a community setting its own ethics.
Human society is in the grips of a huge pyramid scheme. It's called capitalism: Those at the top of the pyramid -- those with the most capital -- make more capital.
Those at the bottom make nothing.
The market model sets a cost on an intangible, whatever it thinks we can stand.
The market now does not tolerate this. It stands for nothing.
Economists are scratching their collective heads asking how to make money from the digital economy.
The truth is, there is no digital economy. It's a digital community. It fosters trade while resisting capital.
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Community values
BBC NEWS | Business | US health care coverage shrinks
An example of a system in paradigm paralysis. The United States can only see a problem in the context of a free-market solution.
Universal health care is the duty of society to its constituents.
A society can provide the best level of health care to all it's constituents -- no one need have a second rate experience. All it takes is a shift in thinking.
What is important -- bullets or beds?
An example of a system in paradigm paralysis. The United States can only see a problem in the context of a free-market solution.
Universal health care is the duty of society to its constituents.
A society can provide the best level of health care to all it's constituents -- no one need have a second rate experience. All it takes is a shift in thinking.
What is important -- bullets or beds?
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Insight
Digital Copying.
If an object can be duplicated in exact detail an unlimited number of times and without depleting limited resources -- where is the value model?
This is the fundamental problem facing the packagers of content. They are placing artificial constraints by enforcing rights managements. The record industry are finding out that the nature of the content dictates how it will thrive.
A distribution channel is no longer needed. A gatekeeper is no longer needed. Making money from copying, is no longer needed.
This is the threat to power. We individuals are empowered, the anonymous authorities are emasculated. They will not go quietly into the night. How many more 12 year olds will be sued during the death throws of system that is on the wane?
If an object can be duplicated in exact detail an unlimited number of times and without depleting limited resources -- where is the value model?
This is the fundamental problem facing the packagers of content. They are placing artificial constraints by enforcing rights managements. The record industry are finding out that the nature of the content dictates how it will thrive.
A distribution channel is no longer needed. A gatekeeper is no longer needed. Making money from copying, is no longer needed.
This is the threat to power. We individuals are empowered, the anonymous authorities are emasculated. They will not go quietly into the night. How many more 12 year olds will be sued during the death throws of system that is on the wane?
Moments in the now
Standing cheek-by-jowl with other commuters on the train this morning, my gaze fell upon those of a schoolgirl who was staring into space.
For the briefest instant, I saw in that face all of human existence -- a child, an adult and an old woman -- and I was filled with profound compassion for all of humanity.
For the briefest instant, I saw in that face all of human existence -- a child, an adult and an old woman -- and I was filled with profound compassion for all of humanity.
The ethics of employment
Smart cards track commuters.
Privacy threat or a genuine attempt to improve public transport in London?
I'm a believer in public transport. I lived and worked in London for a while and the Tube is a national treasure; the only way to get around while retaining ones sanity. But there are legitimate concerns with such data tracking.
Like any tool, I.T. per se is not inherently evil. It is the employer of the tool that decides if it's use is to be for good or bad.
Privacy threat or a genuine attempt to improve public transport in London?
I'm a believer in public transport. I lived and worked in London for a while and the Tube is a national treasure; the only way to get around while retaining ones sanity. But there are legitimate concerns with such data tracking.
Like any tool, I.T. per se is not inherently evil. It is the employer of the tool that decides if it's use is to be for good or bad.
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