Chapter Fourteen: Eldred

Chapter Fourteen: Eldred

Lessig's said(I received an avalanche of e-mail and letters expressing support. When you focus the issue on lost creativity, people can see the copyright system makes no sense. As a good Republican might say, here government regulation is simply getting in the way of innovation and creativity. And as a good Democrat might say, here the government is blocking access and the spread of knowledge for no good reason. Indeed, there is no real difference between Democrats and Republicans on this issue). Lessig's persuasively argues that material property should be from intellectual property, be accepts the importance of creative property in today's knowledge economy and lays to rest a very controversial topic by saying that most person-to-person sharing is probably wrong. And despite Lessig's insistent rejection of the "free-for-all" position in the property debate, it is interesting to note of his three major works: Code is almost exclusively a work of legal theory.

The Future of Ideas is a distinctly more normative project, while Free Culture can be considered activist. But along with the radicalization of ideas also come several improvements: with time, his arguments tend to get clearer, more accessible to a general readership, and at the same time even more relevant to copyright law. It is also a great virtue o( Free Culture that it does not sacrifice Lessig's thorough legal reasoning, his broad, contextual legal analysis, and his gift for telling stories that often map the law's significance more effectively than mere linear recounts of legal provisions and precedents.

On the other band, one could easily charge Lessig with making a classically "historical" argument. He buttresses his plea for freedom in culture on claims that "our tradition has never been a permission culture," or that "we've never done this in our history," implying that because something has always been so, it should necessarily be the same today. It is avowedly a part of his objective, lost in the shuffle is the fact that the past decade has also seen tremendous gains for the public domain and free culture as a result of the overall environment for content dissemination created by new technologies. As an astute and self-conscious scholar himself, be does concede this point tangentially it may still be lost on most readers as a result to the general impression one gets from his overall analysis.

One might think of the state of the current US copyright regime, it is bard to dispute that, especially when combined with the power of lobbyists and the extremely litigious nature of the US legal establishment, it continues to see its share of abuses. And while Lessig has perhaps developed a tunnel vision of those abuses in the midst of what he calls "the copyright wars," Free Culture retains enough objectivity and academic rigor to make it an interesting and important. All this seems to follow easily from this untroubled acceptance of the "property" in intellectual property. Common sense supports it, and so long as it does, the assaults will rain down upon the technologies of the Internet. The consequence will be an increasing "permission society." The past can be cultivated only if you can identify the owner and gain permission to build upon his work. The future will be controlled by this dead (and often unfindable) hand of the past.

I think Lessig has vision about the copyright law and how is this copyright law have impact in the future and it will be ware in the copyright law and any of the abuses should stop and make a strong law to keep this copyright law saved.

startup.com

Start up .com

The film is about Friends since high school, something and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments. Kaleil raises the money, Tom's the technical chief. A third partner wants a buy out; girlfriends come and go; Tom's daughter needs attention. And always the need for cash and for improving the site. Venture capital comes in by the millions.

The company growth up they have 50 employee , the company coming bigger and bigger the employee growth up to be 300 some problem coming up kaleil love his self ,he think he the leader and everybody has to do what he think. Tom gets philosophical and is sacked by Kaleil, who can't believe Tom no longer trusts him when Tom begins to protect his own self interests.

We join them at the very start of this journey as they gather funding, grow the employee base and begin developing their product and compete for business and investment day after day the company coming decline in everything all the relationship come bad, the company closed and they lose everything.

These is the life and the friendship in company, now body now what will happen in this day, tomorrow and future.

an army of davids

In An Army of Davids the book about Glenn Reynolds looking into the future of personal technology over mass technology. This will not bring benefits only to the phone and laptop who will be the main consumers of the new. Now, if you know Reynolds from his Instapundit website, you might think that his book is mainly about blogging and bloggers. Actually, blogging plays such a small part in its scheme that it's hardly worth mentioning. Reynolds covers lots of technological changes in such diverse fields as video games, nanotechnology, space travel, and life extension. The internet, that computing power has exploded in scope, and that advances in genetic knowledge are making life longer and more comfortable. It's to know the past and the present than the future.

In the old time you had to go to libraries, look things up, perhaps sit and wait while a book was fetched from storage. What knowledge there was spent most its time on a shelf. And if knowledge was going to be organized and dispersed, it took a big organization to do it.Now, in this day it is true that you can find a lot of information more quickly and easily on the internet these days. But Reynolds has completely confused the efficiency of knowledge distribution with the having of knowledge. Why is it knowledge when no one is looking at it in one place but not knowledge when no one is looking at it in another?

I think there were some very good sections in this book. The section dealing with blogging did provide a challenge that the Goliaths of the world ought to consider. The section on horizontal knowledge did a good job of showing how information is increasingly moving horizontally, between groups of loosely-coordinated people, rather than vertically as in the past. Reynolds does prove, to some degree at least, that because of new technologies, the little guy is empowered in a way that was impossible in the past. Right in the middle, just as the book is beginning to come together, it takes a strange turn and it began to evoke memories of my childhood friend.

Reynolds leaves behind media and blogging and begins to fantasize about nanotechnology and life in space. You have to read it to believe it, but there is a long, detailed section of the book discussing the future colonization of Mars and a 4,000 ton Chinese spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions (not to be confused with a nuclear reactor). He even provides a primer on how we can prepare ourselves to deal with a terrorist attack. There are a couple of half-hearted attempts to somehow make this relevant to the thesis of the book, but it simply cannot be done convincingly (unless we are to believe that China, the most-populated nation on earth, is a "David" who is tackling the American "Goliath" in the space race). The final chapter introduces the concept of "singularity," which describes "the point at which technological change has become so great that it's hard for people to predict what would come next". I think it is the point where robots take over the world and use as their fuel source and those who remain develop superpowers (and yes, Reynolds does discuss the possibilities of humans with super strength).The book concludes with these words: "The Army of Davids is coming. Let the Goliaths beware".

think I felt this book did not receive good editing. An Army of Davids rambles on through topic after topic which seem to be related to each other only as Reynolds' personal interests it is not for all the people it about the vision for Reynolds what he think.